Re: Free Advertising ... etc.
Robert Lyons (boblyons@umich.edu)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:21:05 -0500
Angela c. Murphy wrote:
>
> I looked at the complete headers, and the message apparently came from a
> California dial-up account at earthlink.net. Since earthlink seems to be
> unable or unwilling to get rid of such subscribers these days, I used
> traceroute to find a domain upstream. That domain turned out to be
> mci.net. I sent a complaint to mci.net, but a single complaint goes
> nowhere. If many members of the ABRF send complaints to earthlink and
> mci, that might get a response. We are lucky at ABRF that we only see a
> few such messages. Matteo is right about seeing much junk in regular
> email. It has become a pandemic, and outside of complaining about each
> and every such message received, I cannot see a cure anytime soon.
> Angela Murphy
>
Actually, the Earthlink address was just a throw-away account.
The real culprit was world-space.ids.on.ca, and you will all
be pleased to know that they lost their internet connection
as a result of the complaints received by their own internet
service provider. Carefully-aimed complaints really do work.
Robert Lyons, University of Michigan
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Robert Lyons, Ph.D.
Director, DNA Sequencing Core
University of Michigan
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