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Article #340Re: e-mail accusing you of internet terrorism?
From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:00
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Another followup from uw.general: Adrian Pepper (arpepper@math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: > cumeyer@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (chris meyer) wrote, > in article <EEstHF.7v4@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>: >>I was one of the lucky recipients of that e-mail. Have some fun and visit >>http://www.dejanews.com and do a search on the lawyer's e-mail address: >>khskllp@aol.com. See how upset some of the other recipients are! >> >>Staying on topic, there is an online coalition against spam. You can >>check out there homepage at http://www.cauce.org/. chris > > See also: > > http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5967.html > > This URL was e-mailed to me by a representative of AOL in response to > my notification to them of the spammed message. The AOL account was > only marginally involved, and, it seems, now, without the account > owner's consent. That is, it seems that the address of the law firm, > and their AOL e-mail address are both legitimate, and the firm does > represent Samsung, but neither they nor Samsung had anything to do with > originating any of the spam. > > A quick check of the "Cease and Desist" message (now affectionately > referred to by many as the "C&D message") revealed four concrete points > which suggested to me that it had not been composed by a legal office. > However, I am not a lawyer, so I could have been mistaken. > > > Adrian Pepper > arpepper@math.uwaterloo.ca -- #### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca #### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. #### > < Opinions are my own. You may consider them shareware. #### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105a5a,b6f9e8f2d2908954,start X-Google-Attributes: gid105a5a,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,b6f9e8f2d2908954,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Subject: Re: e-mail accusing you of internet terrorism? Date: 1997/08/13 Message-ID: <5srq2k$t2c@freenet-news.carleton.ca> X-Deja-AN: 263907684 References: <5sno8p$mes_001@promote.uwaterloo.ca> <EEstHF.7v4@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <EEt5oJ.62y@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> X-Given-Sender: ag414@freenet3.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Reply-To: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Newsgroups: ott.online,can.infohighway