From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 1 10:18:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gw.doug.net (154.209-115-209-0.interbaun.com [209.115.209.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C83E37B719 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:18:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@gw.doug.net) Received: (from doug@localhost) by gw.doug.net (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f21IInd74975 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:18:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from doug) From: Doug MacKintosh Message-Id: <200103011818.f21IInd74975@gw.doug.net> Subject: Spam from bsdsearch.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:18:49 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings all, The recent spam from bsdsearch.com was not well rec'd by very many folks, myself included. Such a disappointment to see this kind of behaviour from a member of the BSD community. As a group, we BSD folks hold ourselves to a higher standard such that we may lead by example and demonstrate conduct that is appropriate in any given situation. That is why I feel that their spam is worthy of a response. In emailing back and forth with the perpetrator(s) of this incident it became evident that they were remorseless with regard to their conduct and in fact were even lying about the reason the spam was sent, claiming that it was an accident and/or a mistake. It was obviously neither. This was merely a weak attempt to spin what they did (deliberately, with forethought and planning) in a less-disastrous direction. Their Internet provider, pbi.net (PacBell) has an acceptable use policy that forbids the sending of spam. I had intended to log a complaint with pbi.net over this incident but I (stupidly) deleted the spam itself. I suggest that all parties concerned contact abuse@pbi.net with the relevant information and make formal complaints. If someone is still in posession of the spam in question and would be so kind as to forward a copy to me, I will do this also. Thanks for your time... -- Doug -- doug mackintosh the unix geek doug@doug.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message