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Quirk (dmytrik@lglobal.com) wrote:

: On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:02:22 GMT, Bob Allisat wrote:

: +  >From: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca

: +  >***** The BEST Way for YOU to Market Successfully *****

: +   Their use of a free public service
: +   for profit making is unacceptable
: +   in my humble opinion. Unless they
: +   are willing to pay major $$$s
: +   for the privilige.

: Has anybody done any header analysis to verify that this spam *IS*
: actually from the freenet?

Amazing though it may seem, only one person has reported receiving this 
message.  (What's the singular of spam?  spud?)

That person appears to be a beginner, who doesn't know about pressing 
Ctrl-h to get message headers.

The address is clearly a fake.  Try sending mail to it:  you'll get a 
response of:

>: From MAILER-DAEMON@torfree.net Thu Jan  9 07:11:25 1997
>: Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 22:07 EST
>: From: MAILER-DAEMON@torfree.net
>: Subject: mail failed, returning to sender

>: |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ------------------|
>:  <now@freenet.toronto.on.ca> ... unknown user

: I say that a TFN member should organise a members committee to take
: disciplinary action against abusers ...

An interesting thought.  What about abusers who post obscenity to 
inappropriate newsgroups?

: Go for it Bob.

Keep in mind that this transmission, and the one from Quirk, and the one 
from boB, and the one from now@torfree.net, just might be malicious 
forgeries.  boB may have invented all of it.

:            Copyright 1996 Idiosyntactix, Toronto.

Sorry, this mail took place in 1997.  Are you claiming copyright to the 
material ostensibly posted by now@torfree.net and reposted by yourself?  
And material posted by boB and reposted by yourself?  When do you plan to 
publish?  Interesting to see a copyright on public statements; now, if 
Jean Chretien had only put a copyright on the Red Book, the press would 
not be able to quote it back at him.

Do you open every board meeting with the statement, "Everything I say is 
copyright 1996 Idiosyntactix, Toronto .. it may not be reproduced in the 
minutes without written permission"?

Then again, the copyright just might be a malicious forgery.