[91294] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bill Stewart kills babies after he molests them. Honest! /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Dec 3 13:12:29 1997
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 09:12:39 -0800
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Lc15ge34w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply-To: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
At 07:53 AM 12/3/97 EST, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
>Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
>> The real problem, besides the emotional distress some people feel
>> at the abuse they get in response to forged postings,
>> and the potential loss of reputation capital, is that people
>> keep trying to call their ISP to get them shut down,
>> and some ISPs do this sort of thing, squashing abusive-sounding customers
>> first and asking questions later. Ok, soon-to-be-ex customers...
>
>Yes, this is one of the problems. Earlier this year pedophile Chris Lewis
>from Northern Telecom forged a bunch of spam e-mail to look like it came
>from dm.com (my domain). I got about 500 obnoxious e-mails, which I
>semi-automatically responded to, and had a rather unpleasant conversation
>with the assholes at my upstrea (PSI): "If you prove that this e-mail didn't
>originate at your site, you will not be held responsible".
If you could find a competant jury you would be able to show breach of
contract
had they done anything, because they should know better than to believe
forgeries.
Admittedly this is a major hassle you should not have to endure.
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