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In article <NEWTNews.29330.792383752.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> muzaffer@smixedsignal.com writes:

| In article <3hd9jv$hoh@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>, <jwest@jwest.ecen.okstate.edu> 
| writes:
| > In article <3hcq6s$jpp@panix.com> ccapc@cyber.sell.com (Consumer Credit 
| Advocates) writes:
| > >Consumer Credit Advocates, PC
| > >11 Pennsylvania Plaza, Suite 2101
| > >New York, NY  10001
| > >(212) 629-5261 (telephone)  (212) 629-4762 (fax)
| > >E-MAIL: ccapc@cyber.sell.com
| > >
| > >Our LAW FIRM offers direct guaranteed effective credit
| > >restoration services by experienced attorneys.  THIS IS
| > >NOT A DO-IT-YOURSELF KIT.
| > 
| > [more drivel deleted]
| > 
| > I can't wait to see the explanation of how this ended up on all the
| > gnu.*.announce groups.

I just hope everybody knowing how to do this keeps his/her mouth shut.
It's absolutely no good to volunteer this kind of information to those
Net morons we've got amongst us.  I don't want to have anything like
this coming in every other day.

BTW, it's not very difficult.  Just go and find the related
documents...


| > 
| > jw
| 
| 
| How do you think it did ? Someone wrote a program to enumerate the groups
| and post the same f*ing ad to all of them. Personally I am sending one
| message from each group I see their add in with the message intact.

How come you're so sure they've actually posted this themselves?  All
local copies have been cancelled by now, but I thought that their site
didn't show up in the Path:.  Have you ever thought about the
possibility that someone is using you to sabotage someone else?  After
all, this spam was posted to moderated groups using fake Approved:
headers---obviously someone knew darned well what he/she was doing.
People with that much knowledge about the Net usually have some kind
of idea what will happen to the alleged poster of such spam as well.

I know commercial access provider admins are a bit more reluctant to
cancel someones account than university admins are, but in this case
I'd be sure that (1) someone finds out the how and who and (2) some
admin will get reasonably annoyed to make sure it doesn't happen
again---by chucking the true originator of this mess off the Net.

And finally, realize that there are other people getting their news
and e-mail through the same provider.  Flooding that providers e-mail
spool with your replies also messes up their e-mail/news access.

Better tell everybody you know that spamming is a very bad thing to do
and gets you so much trouble it's just not worth it.

    Ben

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