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In article <351B3904.9593FDB9@usask.ca>,
Chris Pitzel  <chris.pitzel@usask.ca> wrote:
>I received the following reply from  Galaxy.net:

>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. 

He told me the same thing, and I forwarded my complaints
as he suggested.  Then I got this from lance:

>> >|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.

You've seen what is unfortunately all too common in some ISPs -
the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

Presumably the executives of galaxy.net had a change of heart,
and this guy didn't know about it yet.

>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).

Spammers pick up your name from a number of different places.
Web pages, poorly run mailing lists etc.  Usenet is only one of them.
But if you want lots of spam, just post to alt.business.misc.  That
does it every time (60+ and counting from a single test post).
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