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I received the following reply from  Galaxy.net:

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I have attempeted to remove this site from the net but I was politically
out voted by management of my.... excuse me,
their company. 
I am truly sorry, Please direct all abuse mailings to
michael@galaxy-net.net and lance@galaxy-net.net. 

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Since 'freesoftware.net' appears to be gone, it's not a terribly big
problem anymore.  It's kinda peculiar how they managed to collect those
addresses; they had one of mine which I had never used for usenet/emails
and have only very rarely used (company internal address).


Chris Lewis wrote:
> 
> In article <6f6hoc$jre@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>,
> Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> wrote:
> >In article <6f2u1f$eg6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
> >Andrew Nellis <bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
> 
> >>You can't.  There is no known way to get yourself removed from a spamming
> >>list once you're on it.  And even if you could, the damage is already
> >>done.  Any spammer who wants it has already downloaded those lists.
> 
> >Maybe not.  It doesn't often work, but it seems to have this time:
> 
> >I just sent a sternly worded "company official" cease-and-desist message
> >to the web site's contact address, and their ISP (galaxy-net.com) demanding
> >that at a minimum, all of our addresses be removed forthwith (we have
> >over 7000 on two of their lists alone).
> 
> >The VP of Galaxy-net just said, in part:
> 
> >|The owner of the site has been contacted and is complying with
> >|respect to your address concerns.
> >|In addition we have given the client a 30 day notice to find a new
> >|hosting company for freesoftware.net.
> >|If you have any further questions please feel free to call.
> 
> H'm.  I just checked, and the server doesn't appear to be there anymore...
> What a shame...
> 
> The traceroute dies at geo.net.  It's possible that they're in the middle
> of moving to another ISP.  Or, it's also possible that later complaints
> arriving at galaxy-net caused them to move up the termination date rather
> abruptly.
> 
> Either way, they're not there right now.
> 
> If it does come back, it will be interesting to see whether they've
> kept our addresses out of it.
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