How about deleting accounts, and refusing new accounts? I happen to know Alan very well Keith. I've known him for a very long time and share the same sentiments as he does. This is a big reason why people complained about Intel's idea of putting a special chip in its CPUs that could do the same thing. How about providing no SMTP (forcing the use of another SMTP server)? How about putting the interests of your normal users as the top priority? After all, free services such as yours exist for the purpose of revenue, and by invading the privacy of such users, you drive them away and in effect, LOSE revenue. But I guess you didn't think of that did you? Evidently not. I trust that by the time you get this that both of my accounts will have been deleted. I also hope you realize before it is too late that your service is about to go under due to folks being warned about the spying. If they join anyway, they will soon learn of it. And, before I send this off, that knocking Alan does not make you look good. Your service is already proven horrible. Tim :-) ICQ# 5756489 Yahoo! Messenger: nba_jammer77 AIM: nbajam77 http://www.nbajammer.com http://www.nzlist.org/user/internet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sistrunk, B. Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tim Schoon'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:37 PM Subject: RE: [POP3] Message from Virtualactive > Well, the truth is the tag means nothing. We put it on there temporarily because we just had the server shutdown and overloaded with Spam messages. In this way our bluff is ridding us quickly of the undesirables who now don't find it funny to try and use our service to Spam. Your friend Alan is a bit lacking in the intelligence and couth to gather all his information before he leaps, but he is entitled to his opinions. His assessment is completely wrong. And the other truth is that there is no other way to stop the particular type of spamming we were encountering. If Alan had asked then we would have explained. > > > Kindest Regards, > > B. Keith Sistrunk
