Censorhappy MFN.org syadmin files "spam" complaint

[Declan McCullagh]

The correct and accurate chronology is here:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01870.html

The message you sent to UUNET complaining about my alleged spam is below. 
In your most recent response, you wrote:
"*NOWHERE* in the below complaint will you see *ANY* proof of your 
assertion that I "asked them to take action against *me* [McCullagh]".

To the contrary, in the below spam complaint sent to UUNET you brand me a 
"downstream spammer" and ask them to "please muzzle this idjit..."

I admit I may have been a little hasty in saying you were "censorhappy." 
"Apparently censorhappy" would have been better. But it is incorrect to say 
that I tried to attack you in my writeup. My full message is 5,202 
characters; the paragraph dealing with you was 338 characters. (Granted, 
you could snip headers, but the calculation would be similar.)

It would have been trivial to write an article that *was* aimed at you. I 
could have said:
>If there's one thing J.A. Terranson hates more than spam, it's a spammer. 
>With the regularity of a metronome and the cool calculation of a viper, 
>the vigilante sysadmin regularly reports spammers to their upstream providers.
>But Terranson's singleminded focus on spam has had one side effect: The 
>gradual but inevitable erosion of any sense of humor about the topic.
>When I posted a message to cypherpunks...

But I didn't write that.

-Declan


 > > Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103291257260.10465-110000 at greeves.mfn.org>
 > > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:58:07 -0600 (CST)
 > > From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl at mfn.org>
 > > To: abuse at broadwing.net
 > > cc: abuse at uu.net
 > > Subject: Your downstream spammer...
 > >
 > >
 > > Please muzzle this idjit...
 > >
 > > --
 > > Yours,
 > > J.A. Terranson
 > > sysadmin at mfn.org
 > >
[signature snipped for brevity, full message available on request]
 > > Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks-outgoing at ssz.com>
 > > Received: from einstein.ssz.com (einstein.ssz.com [204.96.2.99])
 > > by cliff.mfn.org (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f2TG9Ej09880
 > > for <measl at mfn.org>; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:09:14 -0600 (CST)
 > > (envelope-from owner-cypherpunks-outgoing at ssz.com)
 > > Received: (from mdom at localhost)
 > > by einstein.ssz.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18391
 > > for cypherpunks-outgoing; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:14:05 -0600
 > > Received: from cluebot.com ([216.110.36.217])
 > > by einstein.ssz.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18387
 > > for <cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:14:02 -0600
 > > Received: by cluebot.com (Postfix, from userid 502)
 > > id D39A9104F1; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:42:29 -0500 (EST)
 > > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:42:29 -0500
 > > From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
 > > To: Ganesh Acharya <GaneshA at icode.com>
 > > Cc: cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com
 > > Subject: Re: CDR: Required- Direct e-mail(Bulk) service
 > > X-News-Site: http://www.wired.com/
 > > X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
 > > Sender: owner-cypherpunks at ssz.com
 > > Precedence: bulk
 > > Reply-To: cypherpunks at ssz.com
 > > X-Mailing-List: cypherpunks at ssz.com
 > > X-Unsubscription-Info: http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr
 > > X-List-Admin: list at ssz.com
 > > X-Loop: ssz.com
 > > X-Acceptable-Languages: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish
 > >
 > >
 > > Cypherpunks are well-known providers of Bulk-email HTML spam campaigns.
 > > As a "marketing analyst," you've clearly come to the right place.
 > >
 > > -Declan