[12180] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Arizona Lawyers Form Company..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Sun May 8 22:58:30 1994
Date: Sun, 8 May 94 22:07 EDT
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 13:32:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
>
> This would suggest to me that the next most visible target for
> mail bombing would be their service provider, and this I think is the tact
> that will prove an efficient strategy against C&S' particular brand of
> socially unacceptable behavior. I would imagine that Marty Schoffstall
> will have something to say about C&S' behavior when PSI's livelihood is
> threatened.
May I suggest that threatening PSI is both wrong and unnecessary? Just
two days ago, some jerk sent a fake-contest scam to the PCIP list. Rather
than sending abuse to the jerk, I sent a polite message to the postmaster
of the bbs from which he posted, with a copy of the offending message.
A day later I got a reply stating that the jerk's account had been
canceled - also polite. No muss, no fuss, no threats, but mission
accomplished.
No responsible provider is likely to tolerate C&S-type behavior, and until
we see one who does, there is no need to talk of threats. A provider who
willfully abets C&S-type behavior should be punished by having his decent
customers find other arrangements - a threat likely to be far more effective
than mail-bombing.
"Oxygenated water" indeed! Is it possible that all this is really just
a net.hoax?
Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
