Hello Steve, Well, it looks like you have a valid fear!
Ashish ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:10 AM Subject: RE: Legal Issue I THOUGHT about providing free email. It is a GREAT medium for viral advertising, and it is EASY to sell. ALAS, it is ALSO great for SPAM! Hence, I never did it! All MY software takes this stuff into account so it couldn't be hacked. I ALSO had an auction program every bit as nice as Ebays! ALAS, too easy to comit fraud! I had a "hacker" that was trying to hack my system, and they were barking down the wrong tree. Unfortunately, they recently found a copy of formmail, copied from a server, and NEVER used otherwise. I DELETED it once I found out. Because of this, I am going to handle affiliates as follows: 1. Must have a LEGITIMATE, controlled by an ENGLISH speaking company, email address that is NOT free! A LOT of email now is sent through russian, chinese, and japanese servers. 2. MUST have their own domain. 3. The domain must be paid for. 4. ALL income "due" to a spammer will be forfeited to the company. 5. I MIGHT even require that they are a customer, or give me a valid credit card to recover improperly obtained commissions, and to check everything else.(of course I would be willing to accept corporate articles, or SSL registration instead). That is more than anyone else requires, but I am sick of this. I just wrote an Email to Yahoo AND my ISP appologizing for the 1000+ emails sent from my server by a hacker. Steve >-- Original Message -- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Legal Issue >Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:04:49 +0530 > > >Hello Friends, > >I am facing some problem and request your assistance. > >I am providing free web hosting on one of my web site. About one month ago >I >had received a complaint from my web hosting provider that a member >subdomain hosted on free servers in committing a fraud by collecting credit >card >information of AOL customers. As expected, I immediately deleted the web >site. However, there are more serious troubles. The Seattle Police has >registered a case against our web site and restrained our webhosting company >against hosting our web site. As you will agree, we, or the webhosting >company are all innocent. I also believe that given a legal case host may >co-operate with the Seattle Police by sharing them whatever information they >have regaring the web site. Kindly advise us suitably on how to: > >1. Proceed against the case and get our name cleared. We are based in India >so it is quite a task to visit the Seattle Police to plead our case. Our >web >hosting company is paranoid and is not co-operating with us. > >2. In the meanwhile kindly suggest how do we get the web site ready and >running. > >3. How do we protect against this in future. You must have seen this >happening before, Please suggest what should we do. > >Thank you for your kind co-operation. > >Regards > >Ashish Raj
