In case any of you were bothered at receiving the preceding mass commercial e-mailing on BEE-L: >Just a message to let you know that DJSA's Who's Who Guide >is located at http://www.djsa.com/whoswho1.htm [snip] I've acquired a little relevant information about the individual responsible; I have no reason to suspect the following information is not true, though I cannot of course guarantee it: >From: [log in to unmask] (Karen Lofstrom) >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: DJSA.COM - mailing list Spam?? >Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc >Date: 7 Mar 1996 02:25:56 GMT > >Doug Yanega ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > >: Out of curiosity, have other mailing lists been hit by this one? Looks >: like a pretty generic Spam to me. If so, I wouldn't mind knowing who lies >: above djsa.com in the hierarchy so complaints can be filed appropriately. > >Auwe! It's David J. Smith again. This guy spammed from various >addresses for years; he's been dropped by every national online >service, often several times from one site. He used to get his feed >from Holonet; looks like he's getting his feed from Netcom now. > >Complain LOUDLY to [log in to unmask] > >Whois shows his phone number to be 305-749-8642. Record was updated >in Feb 96. Is this number a good way to contact him? Someone who >lives out that way might want to try. >-- >Karen Lofstrom [log in to unmask] In other words, this would appear to be an individual who has committed extensive net-abuse in the past, and a number of complaints from BEE-L subscribers directed to [log in to unmask] might be a useful thing (since Mr. Smith is himself the postmaster at DJSA.com, his own private site). Complaints should cite the original posting, not this follow-up. Sincerely, Doug Yanega Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr. Champaign, IL 61820 USA phone (217) 244-6817, fax (217) 333-4949 affiliate, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Entomology "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82