🚀 go-pugleaf

Hallo,

ich glaube wir alle sind den immer wachsenden Spam in News und Mail
schon lange satt. Bekanntlich kommt der meiste Spam aus USA.

Nun hat jemand, der den Eindruck macht, da� er das alles auch satt hat,
den angeh�ngten Artikel gepostet. In Kurzform: Er hat einen alias 
geschaffen, der alle EMail an `the members of both houses'
(Senat und Repr�sentantenhaus) weiterleitet.

Bitte benutzt das sinnvoll - Beleidigungen sind nat�rlich vollkommen 
unsinnig. Versucht, in Englisch zu schreiben, aber weist ruhig auf 
deutsche Besonderheiten wie 
 local telephone calls are never free, but cost by the minute, and
 prices were just increased by more than 100% in January
und
 1-800 telephone numbers do not work in Germany, of course, but
 most spammers include them in their mail
und
 bandwidth is about fifty times expensive here as in the USA
hin (155Mbps in USA kosten etwas mehr als 2Mbps hier), damit die
merken, da� sie die Spammer von uns _stehlen_ lassen.

Man beachte, da� der alias nur bis 06:00 MET DST am 7.6. offen bleibt.
Ich habe Mike allerdings gebeten, die Frist zu verl�ngern. 

�brigens werde ich die Mail nicht als ws@xivic, sondern unter
einer anderen Adresse, jedoch mit meinem Namen abschicken. Falls
die Mails mal in falsche H�nde geraten, wei� man, woher die Mail
kommt an die andere Adresse letzten Endes her kommt.

[bitte den Followup-To: de.admin.news.net-abuse.misc beachten]

 From: Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com>
 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
 Subject: Significance of June 6th .....
 Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:40:00 -0400
 Organization: Home for Retired Caffiene Junkie Programmers ;-)
 Message-ID: <31B50FA0.424F@segel.com>
 NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.5.192.100

 OK,
 To end the confusion, June 6th will be an *attack* on a group of people
 who hold a lot of influence yet don't have a clue about technology.

 Yes Virginia, its the US government.

 On June 6th, I will enable an alias: gov@segel.com . This alias
 contains all the e-mail addresses of the members of both houses.

 The purpose of this e-mail address is to allow you, the citizens
 of the net, let the US government know what problems we are
 having with Junk E-Mail. 

 This alias will only be available on June 6th.  So if everyone who
 gets junk e-mail, please send one copy to the government too.
 BUT YOU MUST FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES:

 1) E-Mail to the governement should contain your name,
    address , and e-mail address.

 2) Please include a brief statement about your opinions of 
    junk e-mail something like:

 Dear US Government Official,

 I thought that this type of unsolicited e-mail should be
 brought to your attention.  The majority of users of the
 information highway face a growing number of this type
 of garbage each day. We ask only that you help legislate 
 laws prohibiting unsolicted e-mail.

 Sincerely 
 <PLACE YOUR NAME HERE>

 Or something to this affect. Then include the *ENTIRE* e-mail.


 I realize that some people feel that the US Government should not
 get involved in net politics. I aggree to a point. Based on the FCC,
 and telecomunication laws and state laws on tresspassing / theft of
 service, they are already involved. If we can extend the laws which
 prohibit unsolicited faxes to cover e-mail, then we will be ok.

 Send me your comments.

 -Mikey
-- 
Wolfgang Schelongowski  ws@xivic.ruhr.de

Mustela locuta, causa finita.   (With apologies to St. Chris)