Article 6454 of meer.list.inet-access: Path: matra.meer.net!gateway From: freedman@netaxs.com (Avi Freedman) Newsgroups: meer.list.inet-access Subject: (fwd) Block of AGIS (fwd) Date: 6 Jun 1997 17:43:52 -0000 Organization: meer.net Lines: 99 Distribution: meer Message-ID: <199706061645.MAA29064@access.netaxs.com> Reply-To: inet-access@earth.com NNTP-Posting-Host: matra.meer.net Content-Type: text Xref: matra.meer.net meer.list.inet-access:6454 [For you Jews: Sung to the tune of Maoz Tzur.] [For you non-Jews who don't know the tune: Ask a Jew to sing Rock of Ages in English or Maoz Tzur in Hebrew] Forwarded to my by my wife... Avi Forwarded message: From tlg@netaxs.com Fri Jun 6 12:41:59 1997 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:41:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706061641.MAA16645@unix2.netaxs.com> From: tlg@netaxs.com (The Lovely Gail) To: freedman@access.netaxs.com Subject: (fwd) Block of AGIS Newsgroups: rec.music.filk Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider Path: netaxs.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ott.istar!n1ott.istar!news.istar.net!cyberus.ca!not-for-mail From: Joel Polowin Newsgroups: rec.music.filk Subject: Block of AGIS Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 13:43:33 -0400 Organization: Muppet Labs Lines: 56 Message-ID: <3391B4C5.41EA@cyberus.ca.ca.ca> Reply-To: jpolowin@cyberus.ca.ca.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: max-port81.cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) In honour of *the* service provider which is giving access to all of the worst spammers in North America. In case it's not painfully clear, the following is dripping with sarcasm. Nay, oozing with it... BLOCK OF AGIS (words copyright 1997 by Joel Polowin; to "Rock of Ages" by Augustus M. Toplady, music Thomas Hastings) Block of AGIS, cover me You're my fav'rite ISP. (1) When they talk of junk-mail laws (2) You will fight to aid my cause. "Problem's solved, as you can see, With the IEMMC." (3) When complaints come over spam, Shrug it off, don't give a damn. When the protests come in flocks, Put up SMTP blocks. (4) When they try to rouse ALLTEL (5) We will mailbomb them to hell. It's our right to advertise -- Let no spam evade their eyes. Crawl the Web and scan the news For the addresses to use. (6) Block of AGIS, send for me Countless megs of UCE. (7) Footnotes... (1) "ISP": Internet Service Provider, a company that sells Internet access. (2) Junk-mail laws: at least two bills are under discussion in the U.S. legal system seeking to restrict junk E-mail in the same way that junk faxes are restricted. (3)IEMMC: an organized coalition of spammers, sponsored by AGIS; AGIS claims that IEMMC members have agreed to stop spamming through AGIS, but no reduction in the incidence of such spam has been observed. (4) SMTP blocks: a software option that prevents AGIS' machine from even receiving complaints sent from some addresses. (5) ALLTEL is a Baby Bell company that made the mistake of purchasing a share of AGIS; one of ALLTEL's shareholders has been trying to make other shareholders aware of the problem. In retaliation, spammers have forged tens of thousands of obnoxious messages with his name and address, and have sent them to their usual mailing lists in a successful attempt to trick people into taking revenge on him by swamping his system with complaints. (6) Spammers generate mailing lists by using software tools to scan Usenet postings and web pages for addresses. (7) UCE: "unsolicited commercial E-mail", a euphemism for spam. -- Joel Polowin jpolowin@cyberus.ca.ca.ca but trim address back to one ".ca" (Spam searchers can fill their address lists with .ca.ca .) -- "What good is Science if no one gets hurt?" - Chrome Dome from "The Tick" ============================== ISP Mailing List ============================== Email ``unsubscribe'' to inet-access-request@earth.com to be removed. More posting tips: ftp://www.earth.com/pub/archive/inet-access/posting-tips