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  • From: Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] I'm on a consumer fraud prevention kick today - non-RR users may delete now.
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:01:03 -0400

A spam farm! Even William Gibson couldn't have made that up 15 years ago!

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 12:39 pm, ya'll wrote:
> Hey folks! Just curious if anyone got a bunch of spam from useless
> companies possibly attempting to defraud consumers? Oddly, all have
> been registered to US states, not EU or Asian companies.
>
> RR won't confirm if their anti-spam server is working, or not.
>
> It pissed me off enough to forward all them to both the NC AG, and the
> respective AG's where the domains are registered. I doubt much can be
> done about it, but it made me feel better, and if the AG's get enough
> consumer fraud complaints, just MAYBE in time they will have the teeth
> to shut the companies down, or at least fine them into non-existence.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the spam bastards spend some time in
> jail, but that is a pipe dream at the moment.
>
> I read an article recently which reported 90% of the spam is sent by
> only about half dozen people. One person in particular is responsible
> for something like 25%, and owns a spam farm in a state with even more
> lax regulations than NC. I wish I had bookmarked the link.
>
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