[JDEV] Fwd: MESSAGING PRO WANTED

[Tim Lesher]

Regardless of their IM intentions, the fact remains that they sent out spam.
I just took a look at their corporate website, and in particular, I took a
look at their AUP:

Policy on SPAM

1. E-Mail. Users may not send unsolicited (i.e., not explicitly requested by
the recipient) e-mail messages, whether or not the practice causes
complaints from recipients, including, without limitation, bulk commercial
advertising [...]

Users may not use the Globix Network to:
[...]
engage in mailbombing (sending large quantities of unwanted or unsolicited
e-mail to individual e-mail accounts or copies of a single message to many
e-mail accounts);

Hmm.  Looks like they violated their own AUP. <grin/>

I suggest that anyone who received a copy of this email reply to it, citing
their own AUP and informing them that this kind of behavior isn't tolerated.
I know this runs counter to the usual "don't reply to spam" advice, but in
this situation, where they already know that your email address is valid and
there is a real name on the other end, it might be interesting...
--
Tim Lesher
<timl at epix.net>
http://lesher.freeservers.com
AIM:  "Tim Lesher"
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Thompson <robert at sv3.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 19:16
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Fwd: MESSAGING PRO WANTED


> > So in short, someone grabbed our subscription list hoping someone would
> > be pulled from the project. Nice try!
>
> Not just anyone.
>
> Someone from a large public company, check them out at,
>
> www.pfmc.net
>
> The nice thing about Jabber is that we are all small guys developing our
own
> clients to Jabber and giving feedback and helping one another out.
>
> I don't believe someone like this has the same intentions.
>
> - Robert
>
>
> >
> > Scott.
> >
> > * Vivre Draco translated into ASCII [Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 03:08:07PM
> > -0600][<VPOP31.3.0b.19991031150808.170.19.1.130a3d50 at oakwind>]
> > > On 31 Oct 99,, Sean Heber sounded off on Re:[JDEV] Fwd: MESSAGING PRO
> > WANTED:
> > >
> > > > >Err... I received this message just afewminutes ago, and thought
> > there may be
> > > > >someone interested in participating on such-project.
> > > >
> > > > Actually, so did I.  And I'm by no means a "top" programmer..   :-)
> > > >
> > > > I think this person got a bunch of addresses from the jabber lists
> > > > and/or pages or something.  Of course that doesn't mean it's not
> > > > for real.  I just suspect that many others on this list got it too.
> > >
> > >    Even *I* got it, and I can't code worth a damn in anything but
> > > HTML.
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Time always seems to fly, yet drag on forever."
> > > --Luna
> > >
> > > Copyright 1999 Vivre Draco (cfc at bigfoot.com)
> > > excelsior ad infinitum -- http://www.paganpaths.org/~cfc/
> > >
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