where to complain about spam: 300 world first products...

[Doug Yanega]

For other annoyed recipients of the latest spam, here's who apparently
gives them their e-mail access - Peter.Wilmot at GLOBALONE.NET, the
administrator of gip.net (my example follows):

>Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:59:37 -0300
>To:Peter.Wilmot at GLOBALONE.NET
>From:dyanega at mono.icb.ufmg.br (Doug Yanega)
>Subject:spam: 300 world first products...
>
>These folks, apparently clients of gip.net (based on traceroute, which
>shows them going thru magnadata.gip.net) have evidently purchased a list
>of "spammable" addresses, including a mailing list that I am on, in
>addition to (no doubt) a few thousand other unwilling recipients. Is this
>sort of massive e-mail abuse against your user policies?
>
>>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 01:48:44 GMT
>>Reply-To: apcbooks at magna.com.au
>>Sender: owner-leps-l at lists.yale.edu
>>Precedence: bulk
>>From: apcbooks at magna.com.au
>>To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu,
>>
>>newsfeed.internetmci.com!139.130.235.93!news.telstra.net!lo at news.bbnplanet
>>.com,
>>        brian.telstra.net!news.magna.com.au!not-for-mail at omi.telstra.net
>>Subject: 300 world first products and technologies published online
>>X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230
>>X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
>>
>>Tomorrows World, The Australian Initiative, is now online at:
>>
>>http://apc-online.com/twa/
>>
>[snip]
>>
>>Michael Soker
>>Associated Publishing Corporation
>>http://apc-online.com
>>apc-books at magna.com.au

I might add it would be nice to know WHO is selling the "spammable" list
that includes leps-l. Argh.
Peace,

Doug Yanega    Depto. de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas,
Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Cx.P. 486, 30.161-970 Belo Horizonte, MG   BRAZIL
phone: 031-448-1223, fax: 031-441-5481  (from U.S., prefix 011-55)
                  http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~dyanega/
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