From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e9d84ce06116c5ae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-27 20:18:36 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:18:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:18:40 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [off-topic] open letter to ISP admins--and virus program vendors References: <7decnax8Xfyp1euiXTWJig@gbronline.com> In-Reply-To: <7decnax8Xfyp1euiXTWJig@gbronline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.53 X-Trace: sv3-AhQztppaKyxdBMRKCduzNTna3tCMXjilCxejsIsGCYFGTn6dqUDtaP9KU+pFcBf+lkCb9yrqWiLhLE1!Lv+/OSHju7pmaTUcbfKf99JW6/oSvafVelMxH+s5C+UGdyr/uLwp7a6XkqNU/ikyD3lNyLar7OLs X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:60 Date: 2003-09-27T22:18:40-05:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau (me) wrote: > And if by some chance it is not forged, wouldn't a friendly > PHONE CALL from their ISP be more effective than having them > lose mail because hundreds of flames have used up their quota? Someone pointed out to me this is stupid because it's impossible. True. OTOH, is recommending that hundreds of victims contact an innocent bystander less stupid just because it IS possible? -- Wes Groleau Genealogical Lookups: http://groleau.freeshell.org/ref/lookups.html