LugList - sorry to bug you... (fwd)

[mike neuliep]

Sounds like a tempting solution, but I don't have the bandwidth available
to get away with doing all this.  If anyone can think of a better way to 
handle this I'm all ears.

	Mike

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 KRFinch at dstsystems.com wrote:

> 
> This was happening to us once back when I worked in Overland Park.  We were
> getting spammed with about a thousand messages an hour (for different
> reasons mind you, but it was still happening), and the company causing the
> problem was completely unresponsive and denied their involvement.  We
> started on one level of the company, and worked our way up through a couple
> of layers of unresponsive management before we got completely fed up with
> them.
> 
> What we finally ended up doing was simply forwarding on copies of the spam
> to them.  We had the email addresses of several managers over there by that
> time, and we just autoforwarded EVERYONE a copy.  Once they got a taste of
> their own medicine, they got it cleared up in less than 3 hours. :)
> 
> Don't know if this will help or not, but it's an idea.
> 
> Kevin Finch
> Network Administrator
> DST Systems, Inc.
> 816/435-6039
> krfinch at dstsystems.com
> 
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>                     mike neuliep                                                                  
                  
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> I banned all of swbell.net because their security administrator wasn't
> doing
> anything about a serious spam situation that was flooding the kclug server
> with
> hundreds of 2.2 meg e-mails  a day.  We had contacted them about the
> situation
> over a dozen times and they were totally unresponsive.  I hate to be a dork
> 
> but swbell users should complain to swbell that ISPs are blocking them
> because
> they are not enforcing their own acceptable use policy.  For the time
> being,
> this user may want to get a free yahoo or hotmail account.  Hope this
> helps.
> 
>            Mike Neuliep
>            spam and bandwidth nazi
>            mike at illiana.net
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