At 07:53 AM 12/3/97 EST, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
The real problem, besides the emotional distress some people feel at the abuse they get in response to forged postings, and the potential loss of reputation capital, is that people keep trying to call their ISP to get them shut down, and some ISPs do this sort of thing, squashing abusive-sounding customers first and asking questions later. Ok, soon-to-be-ex customers...
Yes, this is one of the problems. Earlier this year pedophile Chris Lewis from Northern Telecom forged a bunch of spam e-mail to look like it came from dm.com (my domain). I got about 500 obnoxious e-mails, which I semi-automatically responded to, and had a rather unpleasant conversation with the assholes at my upstrea (PSI): "If you prove that this e-mail didn't originate at your site, you will not be held responsible".
If you could find a competant jury you would be able to show breach of contract had they done anything, because they should know better than to believe forgeries. Admittedly this is a major hassle you should not have to endure. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.