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  • From: "Robert Weeks" <robert AT designhammer.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Fwd: FC: Bernie Shifman, accused spammer, threatens to sue thosewho complain
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:49:03 -0500


You should check these out, they are great:

http://thespamletters.com/search.shtml?search=Favorite

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] Fwd: FC: Bernie Shifman, accused spammer,
threatens to sue thosewho complain


> hello INW,
>
> i was fortunate enough today to receive a link to THE FUNNIEST thing i
> have ever read/seen on the internet. altho it was a slightly /long/
> read, it was nonetheless worth every rollicking minute. i may read it
> all again tonite just for the sick pleasure of it.
>
> if the link <http://spamflames.com> from the below forward doesn't get
> you there, then fly direct:
>
> http://petemoss.com/spamflames/ShifmanIsAMoronSpammer.html
>
> brilliant. absolutely brilliant.
> drm
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Declan McCullagh <declan AT well.com>
> > Date: Mon Jan 07, 2002 10:58:39 AM US/Eastern
> > To: politech AT politechbot.com
> > Cc: boba130 AT home.com, neil AT petemoss.com, finelaw AT cometlink.com,
> > bshifman AT cometlink.com, abuse AT cometlink.com
> > Subject: FC: Bernie Shifman, accused spammer, threatens to sue those
> > who complain
> > Reply-To: declan AT well.com
> >
> > I invite Bernard Shifman, the accused spammer, to reply to Politech.
> >
> > Here's what a previous accused spammer had to say:
> > http://www.politechbot.com/p-02815.html
> >
> > -Declan
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:03:06 -0500
> > To: declan AT well.com
> > From: Neil Schwartzman <neil AT petemoss.com>
> > Subject: Spamflames.com
> >
> > Dunno if you care or not - this may be a little off the mainstream -
> > but ...
> >
> > I have a new domain devoted to cartoony threats, the most active thread
> > logs the ferocious amount of verbiage being generated by a spammer who
> > is threatening to sue just about everybody he comes in contact with. It
> > is pretty funny, there are a bunch of us now in "legal trouble" (a
> > bunch of the anti-spam gang, including the good people at samspade.org,
> > spambag.net, and a Chicago-based "Mariachi grindcore" band called "The
> > Culprits", complete with MP3's of the phonecalls from said spammer,
> > Bernard Shifman.
> >
> > http://spamflames.com
> >
> > I know, I know, don't feed the trolls. I can't help it. I want to see a
> > x-border suit brought against me for calling someone a spammer, or a
> > moron.
> >
> > Heh.
> >
> > Here's the executive summary:
> > ==
> > Bernard Shifman, "Computer Consultant" spammed me in November 2001. I
> > reported him, as I have done with the other 4,000 pieces of spam I have
> > received since 1998, to his ISP, et al. Shifman then began his assault
> > by sending me an obscenity-laden email. I'm not sure, but I think he
> > wants to have sex with me. Psst! Bernie! I don't swing that way.
> > Anyway, he then sent some murky legal threat, which was never followed
> > up upon. Shifman sent the spam to an address <neil AT alcor.concordia.ca>
> > which has never been used for much of anything apart from POP; a google
> > pretty much confirms it is most directly linked with my anti-spam
> > activities. In fact, I use a number of other addresses for most online
> > activities. He claims he only sent targeted email to the human
> > resources addresses at companies that might hire him. I just checked, I
> > don't actually own, nor work for Concordia University.
> >
> > Then, again, in December 2001, Shifman spammed the same account! At
> > first, I was incredulous. I mean, after someone informs you they regard
> > your email as spam, why send them more? Then, I complained. THEN I put
> > up this page. Enjoy.
> >
> > -- Neil Schwartzman
> > Pete Moss Publications,
> > Industry & Trade Journals
> > <http://petemoss.com>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Spammers kindly click here: http://www.tourettes.co.uk/
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice.
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> >
>
>
>
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  • Re: Fwd: FC: Bernie Shifman, accused spammer, threatens to sue thosewho complain, Robert Weeks, 01/07/2002

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