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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951118074137.6292D-100000@crl14.crl.com>,
   Phyllis Shepard <pshepard@crl14.crl.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Rich Bland spewed, not wrote:
>> In article <48i7mt$mcv@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
>>    friend4u@ix.netcom.com (fm ) wrote:
>> >Welcome! 
>[absolutely disgusting nasty trash deleted, or most of it]
>Actually, being polite to netcom.com gets you much further.  At
>least they will either tell the user to delete the posts or they
>will take away their accounts.

Yeah but thats retroactive, they need to take a *proactive* stance,
and let their _new_ accounts know _up front_ what is and isnt acceptable
behaviour.  They gotta tell them that sending an ad to *.singles, or
*.personals, or *.anything, for that matter, is a big time no-no, and
shouldnt be done!  Makes the user AND the provider look bad.

However, I did go overboard.  I admit it.  I accept full responsibility
for it.  I made MYSELF look bad, in the extreme.  Nothing I can do about
it now, the send button has been pushed.  So flame me in mail, lets not
continue the thread.  Unlike others, MY return address is real.  Use it
to vent, and lets move on.

The mailed reply *I* sent to the user is undeliverable, so, it would seem
that was a forgery, also.  Sorry Netcom, I jumped the gun in blaming you in
this instance.

>I know, I've instigated a few of these in another ng where the spamming
>and the forging go on forever.  There are ISPs who don't give a shit 
>(vivanet.com and portal.com to name two) and will never do anything about
>spamming or forging posts.  Portal.com users will forge netcom.com headers
>so be careful who you're talking to.  
>
>And, if you get no response from a provider, send a copy of the
>post and their response, if sent, to alt.current-events.net-abuse
>and tell the folks there about the provider.
>
>These suggestions will not get *your* account taken away and will
>help your blood pressure too, Rich.  Wash your mouth out, willya?

Folks, theres a lesson here.  My extreme apologies for going overboard,
I've had a hard week, and had an **exceptionally** ugly evening the
details of which are not important.  Lets just say the lesson is,
sometimes its best to just go straight to bed...

That spam was the last straw, and I lost it, big time.

[gargling with Lysol]