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". --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps