Subject: Spammed just for posting?
From: Dan Sterner <danstern@flash.net>
Organization: Organized? Me? ;)
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:57:34 -0500
Message-ID: <MOD$970823.28307@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
I'm real tired of being spammed to death just for posting, and the only
groups I ever post to are the gardening ones. When I spoke against the
adult ads on rec.gardens I was subjected to a spam attack including the
Forrest Dayton is a known pedophile thread that seems untracable so far
according to the admin group for abuse in e-mail. Very good.
However, rather than roll over it's in my nature to fight back, so I now
have a tagline where I never did before, and have joined CAUCE. My spam
attack has been sent to Senators and Congress, and other actions are
being considered.
I don't want to start an off topic thread on this, so lets please not
get into a me too bit on how bad it is. What I'd like to see is for
people to not just quit, but to fight back. Some places to start are
below, I'm sure there are other constructive ideas. Spam or attack me
and I'll fight harder, just reminds me why I got mad. Before I just
responded to what was in my face, now I see it's a widespread problem
where those who argue against it will be abused and attacked. They took
the wrong approach. Fight.
Your children can't post anywhere if gardening isn't safe, and posting
here brings sex ads and others in e-mail. Join the fight. I'm not
against adults seeing or doing anything they want, I'm against a blind
collection of email addresses including children being sent this trash,
and the way they respond when you speak against it.
Please don't offer me too, either check the places listed below, read
news.admin.net-abuse.email or offer suggestions I may have missed on how
to solve the problem. More posts saying there is a problem won't help.
I apologize for being off topic here, I know it isn't about gardening,
but it is about being allowed to post without being
subjected to abuse.
--
Sites to help with the fight against SPAM and UCE
CAUCE -- http://www.cauce.org/ Fight for laws
Fight Spam on the Internet! -- http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ Info
Abuse.net: Home Page -- http://www.abuse.net/ Report abuse
Net-abuse Bookmarks -- http://www.teleport.com/~atari/net-abuse.htm Info