Re: Abusive internet user (spamboy) (fwd)

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 02:00:23 -0400 (EDT)

I just sent a letter to redshift.com concerning the recent
spamming by spamboy (a 100k or so spam email bomb). Here is
redshift's whois query:

Registrant:
Nitelog, Inc. (REDSHIFT-DOM)
PO Box 1668
Marina, CA 93933

Domain Name: REDSHIFT.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Lear, Karl Van (KVL) karl@REDSHIFT.COM
408/655-8710

Record last updated on 22-Dec-96.
Record created on 16-Dec-94.
Database last updated on 16-Jun-98 04:04:25 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.REDSHIFT.COM 165.227.94.2
NS2.REDSHIFT.COM 165.227.94.4
NS.SCRUZ.NET 165.227.1.1

I wrote to postmaster and cc'd to abuse. The message that I got
back is either serious, or is sarcasm, perhaps even spamboy
himself... ? I'm not sure, but I thought I'd post it here to see
what you all make of it.

--
Mike A. Harris  -  Computer Consultant  -  Linux advoacate


Escape from the confines of Microsoft's operating systems and push your
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: tony@RedShift.com
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net>
Cc: abuse@mail.redshift.com
Subject: Re: Abusive internet user at your site.


As soon as we find the user we will disable his account and
bill the account a few thousand dollars for spam clean-up.


--tony




On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:


> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 spamboy@mail.redshift.com wrote:
> 
> Please do something about this:
> 
> Received: from revenge.com (pm7-102.mry.redshift.com
> [207.204.196.102]) by mail.redshift.com (8.8.8/8.8.8)
> with SMTP id NAA26475 for
> 
> The above line is the entry point of a spam message sent to me.
> I do not appreciate such garbage, and I do not tolerate it.  This
> user has SPAMMED the linux kernel mailing list a number of times
> from various places, all using the name "spamboy".  Please do
> something to prevent this nonesense from occuring in the future.
> 
> Thank you for taking your time to look into this matter.  If
> possible, I'd appreciate a short reply back so that I know my
> message was heard.  Just a "We've taken care of it" would be
> nice.
> 
> Thanks.
> TTYL
[SNIP]




Best regards,
Tony Cricelli




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