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hollowell wrote in message <3C4EBE06.7C57E785@dexcite.com>...
>"rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski" wrote:
>>   Details please? I know the e-mail of the DataBasix admin, and he'd hear
from
>> me very quick if DataBasix allowed *real* abuse. Please post details or
shut
>> up.
>
>Three separate abusers with a databasix accounts were reported back in
October and
>I was sent a e-mail threatening to post my complaint messages *with* my
e-mail
>address in the NG I complained about. These abusers were spamming the NG
with XXX
>adverts. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one who complained, according to
>comments made in the NG. I didn't respond to their threatening e-mail, I
simply
>forwarded it to my isp admin at that time and heard nothing else about it.
The
>spammers dissappeared, and I no longer receive messages from *any*
databasix
>account.

  You mean:

  One spammer, posting with forged databasix addresses, was spamming the NG
with XXX adverts in an attempt to fool the gullible and easily manipulated
into making false complaints to databasix.  databasix laughed at your false
complaint.  You forwarded it to your ISP and rather than try and clue you in
what an idiot you are, they just set up a special filter on the newsserver
so you wouldn't see databasix anymore and wouldn't come bothering them.  The
spammers disappeared, and you never even realised that they hadn't gone
anywhere and you had just experienced the usenet equivalent of draping a
sheet over the parrots cage to make it shuddup that damn squawking.  Now,
months later, you still haven't realised that nothing has happened to
databasix anywhere else in the world and it's just you who's had your head
in the sand.

         DaveK
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