While mail-bombing these imbeciles that often appear in AOL.COM,
is a tempting thing to do, there is much more effective way:
Send a notice about their behaviour to
<abuse@aol.com> and/or <abuse@aol.net>.
The latter address is high capacity UNIX account, while the former
is AOL account in their proprietary mailbox system (and a bit limited
in its capacity to take in high volume floods of complaints..)
The AOL people are doing great work at stomping those morons, but
having million+ customers tends to have the number of abusers in
amongst them to be greater than zero far often than with some
small-scale ISPs..
Oh yes, MOST ISPs (and other places, including companies) are now
getting a clue that having a specific address for abuse reports is
a worthwile thing: <abuse@ANYDOMAIN>
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>
> On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> > On Feb 16, 1997, BoSox11978 wrote:
> > > ! ! ! MAKE MONEY - Legal and Easy ! ! !
> >
> > --------------Illegal, moronic, pyramid scheme deleted--------------
> >
> > Thank you for your interest in the Linux operating system. As you
> > posted to the linux-kernel mailing list, you are obviously interested
> > in the development of the Linux kernel. Please find enclosed a
> > complementary copy of the latest Linux kernel, version 2.1.26, free of
> > charge. I hope you enjoy all of the 358605 bytes as much as I do.
> >
> > -Erik
> >
> > p.s. The kernel was only sent to "BoSox11978", not to the mailing list.
>
> Erik, shame on you. You know that the GPL states that we must distribute
> the sources to the linux kernel. You should have sent him the complete
> .tar.gz source archive along with the binary. ;)
>
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