Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM -- Aren't you the person....? (fwd) Message-ID: <199703310348.WAA01974@goffette.research.megasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199703280712.XAA02532@kithrup.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970324204319.9996C-100000@python.shoal.net.au> <27919.859223994@time.cdrom.com> <199703280450.XAA25347.kithrup.freebsd.chat@goffette.research.megasoft.com> <199703280712.XAA02532@kithrup.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> writes: Sean> 4. Lastly, learn who to complain to, and about. Complaining to Sean> AGIS about Cyber Promotions will do no good -- AGIS does not Sean> care. No doubt because it's still worth their while to carry CyberPromo. If enough people bitch -- by calling on the phone, sending email to real, live people (i.e., not the NOC), and making a stink, there HAS to be some point at which they'll say "it's not worth it." I personally have been recently making much more liberal use of the phone than I have in the past. This, of course, means that I end up coughing up some bucks (I can't often find toll-free numbers to use), but it isn't *that* much, and I really like asking people things like "so, what you're telling me, essentially, is that as long as it's economically viable, you're perfectly willing to contribute to the destruction of the 'net?" Some places give me a runaround, but I have been getting increasingly tenacious with these people as well. I don't have any problems going after names (even if I have to pretend to be a potential customer in order to get 'em), and if calls to the office become ineffective, calls to their home will come next. Further, there are a few people who are so out of control that I'm giving consideration to posting everything I know about these yahoos to appropriate newsgroups. As an FYI, of course. I feel it necessary to point out that although I am "tenacious" in my dealings with these idiots, I'm careful to make sure that a significant streach would have to be made in order to call it "harassment." -- Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft, Inc. cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199703310348.WAA01974>