From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 16:08:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA29094 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 16:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29086 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 16:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kb9b6.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.165.102]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA27666; Fri, 2 May 1997 19:07:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970502230739.0098b854@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 19:07:39 -0400 To: Michael Slater From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: SPAM target. Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:26 PM 5/2/97 +0800, Michael Slater wrote: >I also recieved multiple copies of the Adult live SPAM, and i responded by >forwarding it back to him....10,000 times :) Kidding, right? It's not going to help our case if we do nasty things back to them. Calling ISPs and complaining is one thing, but abusing the abuser's system just doesn't seem like a good idea. Neither does flood pinging the offender, because of what you do to the 'net. C'mon now. Everybody vents, and I'm going to assume that's what is going on here. Heh. It gives me a personal sense of satisfaction to (when I get a piece of nasty, spiteful email) send back a perfectly polite message. That way the issue of who the "bad guy" is doesn't get cloudy. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"