[8771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cyberpromotions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani)
Wed Apr 23 02:51:20 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 23:43:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>He can sign all of the deals that he wants. If he doesn't stop
>his illegal tactics of theft of services, he will be out
>of business -- we have contacted the local police department
>after the 3rd or 4th time he used our mail relay -- they
>believe that charges of theft of service will stick. We are
>holding off civil suits against cyberpromotions and their clients
>until criminal charges have been brought. Once he has been
>charged with criminal theft of service, we will sue both cyber
>promotions and their clients for damages.
Great way to go! IMO, this is the best way to hit where it
hurts and punish the real offender instead of arm-twisting or
hacking into ISP's in the chain.
>> And in Interactive Week today, I see Cyber Promotions just signed a
>> three year deal with UUNet/Worldcom. Someone was quoted as saying they
>> will have the capacity to "send 111 average-sized email messages per
>> second".
<sarcasm>
I'm eager to see which of the anti-spam preachers will
be the first to stop peering with and/or taking transit
from UUnet (WCOM) in order to stay "clean".
</sarcasm>
Sanjay.
