From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 13 03:51:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA27782 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA27776 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA15375; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:50:54 -0700 (PDT) To: dave@SEINC.NET cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Wiredbrain.com Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:50:53 -0700 Message-ID: <15371.860928653@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear David, I notice that you're listed as both the technical contact for wiredbrain.com and vcity.net, their primary DNS. I don't know what your affliliation is with Mr. Pflaum is, but I can tell you that a LOT of people on the net are up in arms about the guy and that both of you are about to be the target of a letter-writing and complaint campaign the likes of which hasn't been seen since Cantor & Siegel. Since you may be an innocent bystander in all of this, I just thought I'd give you fair warning and perhaps a chance to explain your affiliation so that I can take you off the "black list" of people who will be receiving "nasty grams" in connection with all of this. Please don't underestimate the size of this mobilization against Dr. Pflaum - he has been spamming people for months with his idiotic newsletter (and frankly, I cannot understand his motivation at all - what sane person would go to so much trouble to inflict his half-baked opinions on such an unwilling audience?) and literally thousands of people are seriously sick of it. We are also prepared to go to any lengths to see him stopped, including phone calls to any and all providers associated with him (and I don't just mean _one_ phone call - we shall continue to call and email until some action results), registration with the various "anti-spam" task forces, you name it. Frankly, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes at all. :-) Please take this seriously - we're not just a bunch of college kids sitting around trying to think up a new crusade. We're Internet "old-timers" who do not like to see the kind of self-serving crap that Dr. Pflaum has been dishing out, and we will not stop until we've seen the very last "wiredbrain" newsletter land in our mailboxes. Thank you, and if you truly are an innocent bystander in all this then I apologise in advance for the tone of this letter (though I'd still recommend that you run away from your current affiliation as his technical contact with all due speed). Regards, Jordan