on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 SIMS Discussions may have said: >Block their netblock of ips at your border router. >Have your ISP block their netblock at their border (or at least from going to >you).
Could, but there is a larger issue; they are sending email using my domain, thus people could think it is from IFD. Haven't seen any problems from this so far, but I need to keep an eye on it. >Contact their upstream providers (any and all), explaining the situation, >and asking them to terminate their account or at least block their traffic >to you. I tried the one in switzerland a while back, and they didn't respond at all. >Change domains. I'm too stubborn to give up a 3 letter domain name to a bully :) I did register ideasfromthedeep.com though, and may have to use it as an alternative for a while :) >And at the VERY least... if you want this to stop... send them an >official legal letter explaining their misuse of your domain, and your >intent to follow up with legal action if they don't cease and decist. Done. >Of course, one would probably fine-tune the above. Like, maybe, first >give them fair warning that if they did not provide compensation for past >abuse, and cease and desist thereafter, you would take this public >(including contents of the emails). Gave them notice that all future emails on ifd.com may be considered public domain. >I think I might actually post my story on slashdot to see where it >goes from there. Good idea! Let's talk on this, maybe if we 1-2'd the stories it would get better press (as in, wow, this is becoming a large problem on the interent...) >You might also be able to get law enforcement interested in this. >This company is effectively mounting a denial-of-service attack on >you across the Internet, and that is a felony in the US. I had thought about this, but had not taken it seriously...but now that I know it's a possible felonly...I might. I'll probably use this as a "or else" scenario first and see what happens. THANKS for all the input everyone! It's good to realize that a lot of options are open to me. Plus, it seems that I may have the right to get compensated for all the time, effort, software and hardware I've thrown at this problem over the past 5 years, esp. the past few weeks and that's heartening. I did manage to contact a branch manager, and that resulted in some action; they tried to contain the emails via a routing system, but instead every email sent is now getting errors which are sent to me. (permission denied to run program, routing table failure, all kinds of bad things...hope it screwed up their entire mailing system!) Oh well, I previously gave them until today to stop using my domain or face legal action. Guess I need to start calling around :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lane Roathe, President Ideas From the Deep <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ifd.com> _______________________________________________________________________ When we drive on parkways, park in driveways, and never obey the speed limit, is it any wonder our children have trouble with right and wrong? ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
