on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:19:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:52:55PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > [snip] > > > Well, for a few months there (roughly March - May) it was inordinately > > > popular among 419 spammers, with a handful of go.com MXs becoming my > > > second leading spam source (following KORnet). I managed to bring this > > > to Disney's attention, the situation's improved markedly. > > > > How the heck did you get a hold of them? > > See: > > http://www.leaders.net/for/Rick/art-of-turboing/ > > Googled on CIO/CTO, tested likely name combinations at their MX, and > emailed _both_, thereby invoking any possible internal political issues > between the two positions. Copied a number of major news organizations, > and pointing to my existing cites with The New York Times, Wired, and > The Register.
...oh yeah, and filed a complaint with the Washington State AG's office, as Go.com's MXs appear to be located in the Seattle area, mentioning this in the email as well. I believe the shorthand reference for this is "applying a sufficiently large cluebat". ...checking... No AS8137 (Infoseek) spam mails at all this month. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist. - Princess Bride
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