Readers, Following is the response to my personal complaint on this matter. Actions always speak louder than words. Hoping for an end to this trash; but realistic to know better. Regards, Ross McKenzie Melbourne Australia ******************************************** Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:42:47 -0700 (MST) X-Sender: lowell@dfni.com To: lewellen@infinet-is.com (Tom Lewellen) From: lowell@dfni.com (Lowell Stone) Subject: Re: WHERE TO COMPLAIN: Re: Hot Girls !!! lewellen@infinet-is.com (Tom Lewellen) Tom, We received the following message from ELI. It looks like they are one of your customers. Will you please investigate this situation with your customer and make sure they understand the consequences of this kind of activity. Thank you, Lowell Stone At 10:09 AM 8/7/97 -0700, ELI Email/Spam Complaints wrote: > >ELI.NET is a Network Service Provider, and does not host any web-sites >or end-user customers. The information you are acting on is incomplete, >and misleading. > >Your complaint has been forwarded to lowell@dfni.com, who is the service >provider that hosts the networks in question. > >The service provider is being notified that this behaviour violates >our Acceptable Use Policy, and the consequences of repeat violations. > >===== >Complaints to ELI.NET's Abuse Response Team should: > >1) Be specific as to the nature of the complaint (i.e. UCE, Usenet Spam, etc) > >2) Include a copy of the offending message/article with full headers included. > >3) Include a traceroute or whois output that demonstrates transit through >ELI.NET's backbone to one of the responsible parties, or that they are a >network customer of ELI.NET. > >===== > >DATA that would have helped you send this complaint to the correct provider. > >(1) Traceroute from Digital's Palo Alto Gateway >(http://www.research.digital.com/cgi-bin/trace) >Traceroute to www.exxxscape.com, Thu Aug 7 10:01:49 PDT 1997 > >% /usr/local/bin/traceroute www.exxxscape.com >traceroute to exxxscape.com (207.173.178.136): 1-30 hops, 38 byte packets > 1 border-gw2.pa-x.dec.com (204.123.2.242) 2.92 ms (ttl=64!) 0.976 ms >(ttl=64!) 0.976 ms (ttl=64!) > 2 br1.pao1.alter.net (198.32.176.2) 2.92 ms 2.92 ms 2.92 ms > 3 331.atm1-0.cr2.pao1.alter.net (137.39.13.146) 4.88 ms 9.76 ms 1.95 ms > 4 197.ATM10-0.CR2.SFO1.ALTER.NET (137.39.196.42) 6.83 ms 10.7 ms 4.88 ms > 5 133.Hssi9-0.GW1.POR2.ALter.Net (137.39.75.137) 20.4 ms 21.4 ms 37.0 ms > 6 elix-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (137.39.164.22) 22.4 ms 22.4 ms 23.4 ms > 7 H3-0.4.phnxic01.eli.net (207.0.56.181) 85.8 ms 83.9 ms 84.9 ms > 8 gw-DFNI-DOM.eli.net (208.131.30.34) 77.1 ms 83.9 ms 78.6 ms > 9 207.173.174.50 (207.173.174.50) 83.9 ms 88.8 ms 88.8 ms >10 207.173.178.136 (207.173.178.136) 86.8 ms 81.0 ms 81.9 ms > >(2) WHOIS (http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois) > >For 207.173.174: >Electric Lightwave Inc. NETBLK-ELI-NETBLK5 ELI-NETBLK5 > 207.173.0.0 - 207.173.255.255 >Digital Fiber Networks, Inc. NETBLK-ELINETBLK-DFNI ELINETBLK-DFNI > 207.173.174.0 - 207.173.180.255 >dfni NETBLK-DFN-00005 DFN-00005 > 207.173.174.0 - 207.173.175.255 > >For 207.173.178: >Electric Lightwave Inc. NETBLK-ELI-NETBLK5 ELI-NETBLK5 > 207.173.0.0 - 207.173.255.255 >Digital Fiber Networks, Inc. NETBLK-ELINETBLK-DFNI ELINETBLK-DFNI > 207.173.174.0 - 207.173.180.255 >Infinet NETBLK-DFN-00003 DFN-00003 > 207.173.178.0 - 207.173.178.255 > >===== > >+++++ >At 09:43 97.08.07 +1000, Ross McKenzie wrote: >>Sirs, >> >>The purpose of this email is to express my utter disgust at the filth being >>peddled by one of your "business customers" through the our discussion group >>(pic microcontroller discussion list ). The trace >>details are appended to this message. >> >>Whilst I acknowledge that there is such a thing as freedom of speech, >>uninvited random spamming takes no account of the age of the recipients. >>There are international laws against bringing minors into moral danger. By >>allowing, and indeed aiding and abetting this practice, you leave your >>company open to serious litigation. >> >>If you are an innocent party, I would suggest that you disassociate yourself >>from this purveyor of questionable commercial enterprise at the earliest >>moment and that you seek legal assistance in assuring that this is not >repeated. >> >>Sincerely, >> >>Ross McKenzie >> >>At 03:57 AM 8/6/97 -0400, you wrote: >>>The spammer was connected to: ip94.phoenix2.az.pub-ip.psi.net >>>Which connected to: belize.it.earthlink.net >>>Complain (with all headers) here: abuse@psi.net -or- abuse@earthlink.net >>> >>>A traceroute to "www.exxxscape.com" shows that "eli.net" is the host and >>>going to "www.eli.net" shows they are "Electric Lightwave, Inc." and they >>>offer "Internet access services to business customers throughout the >>>Western United States." Possibly they also would like to hear from PICLIST >>>members how much we all appreciate that their customer (exxxscape.com) >>>spammed us. Hey, they even have a Phoenix office! Looks like the spammer >>>is in Phoenix. >>> >>>Complain here: abuse@eli.net >>> >>> >>> >>>Kill SPAM(mers)!!! >>> >>>Andrew Gerald >>>Custom Communications Systems >>> >>>*** >>> >>>This e-mail address is a 'facsimile receiver' as defined >>>by Title 47 USC. Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail >>>to this address is a violation of US Federal Law. >>> >> >> >+++++ > > >/* Abuse/Spam Response Team > Operations, Data Products Group, > Electric Lightwave, Inc. Vancouver, WA > Corp Office: (360) 892-1000 */ > >