PhneCards@aol.com wrote:

Did you know this company is using your email address as part of an unlawful email bomb?

I signed up for this Internet service through GTE. I haven't got the foggiest idea what a "email bomb" is, nor do I care. I can't possibly be doing anything illegal by logging on to this service and receiving and posting email to cypherpunks, and if someone else is, why are you telling me?

I would advise you to write to them at cypherpunks@toad.com and owner-cypherpunks@toad.com and advise them to stop using your email address for this type of activity.

I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe if you dropped the "Computerese" and wrote in plain English, I could understand what you're saying. Are you saying (by analogy) that if someone posted my picture on a milk carton claiming I was lost, that I'd have to write someone a letter of explanation to say I wasn't lost? And how do I *really* know I'm not lost, anyway? I'd prefer that you just leave me alone.

It is illegal to use a invalid return email address. If this continues, I will be forced to prosecute the return email address - which they are making to look like you.

Well, this is all quite fascinating, but it's not what I signed up for. Are you suggesting that I would be obliged to witness against someone? I've been in court before, and I know how lawyers like to insist on Yes or No answers, but it rarely works for me. I just get so confused....

Below is the letter that I received in my email box In a message dated 96-09-25 13:58:31 EDT, you write:

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Subj: Re: More proposals for European censorship Date: 96-09-25 13:58:31 EDT From: dthorn@gte.net (Dale Thorn) Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com To: asgaard@Cor.sos.sll.se (Asgaard) CC: cypherpunks@toad.com

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