From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 14:05:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28631 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA28621 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA00640; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:58:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610072058.WAA00640@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: RESPONSE FROM CYBERPROMO In-Reply-To: from Dave Babler at "7. Oct. 96 12:08:19" To: dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com (Dave Babler) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:58:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: root@buffnet.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > : Version 9-30-96: > > > : Cyber Promotions has started to implement stricter Terms of Service > > > > > > These guys keep filling my mailbox up with this stuff... again, and > > > again and again. > > > > Mine too! [..] > > Now there is an idea! > > > Or for a new meaning to "FAST CASH NOW!!" check out: > > http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47 > > The law establishes a $500 per incident fine for sending unsolicited > commercial message traffic (seen a junk FAX lately?). So far, every time > somebody gets unwanted junk mail here, I send a message to the site's > postmaster account and mention in passing the law and the fine... never > had an incident where the spam continued. Is this also valid for non-US recipients ? I sent them a mail to stop and when they didn't just added ldeny all from 208.9.65.0/27 to 134.147.6.0/26 ldeny all from 208.9.65.0/27 to gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de to our IP filter rules. Only one incident in the logs since then. Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de