[30494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL caves in to spammers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Wed Aug 9 11:49:52 2000
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:49:41 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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Steve Sobol wrote:
> AOL didn't cave in. Reuters and BusinessWire ran a PRESS
> RELEASE from Harris, and traceroutes to AOL still showed
> AboveNet as of yesterday. The "news" article didn't contain
> any quotes from AOL, AboveNet, MAPS or anyone besides
> Harris.
>
> Harris's stock is in a lot of trouble and my bet is that they lied...
> they posted a "clarification" yesterday, but they're still full of
> crap...
The three rules of spamfighting from news.admin.net-abuse.email
apply here, I think...
1) Spammers lie.
2) If you think a spammer is telling the truth, see 1)
3) Spammers are stupid.
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