I did a `whois albany.net` and got the phone number.

I called them and complained about our ian fellow.  The
guy I got, Matt, was very helpful on the issue, and once
I told him who it was, ian@..., he admitted that they had
gotten complaints about this one before, and that they
were working on it.

The problem is that it is a business account with multiple
users, so he is going to confront them about this spamming,
and make them change passwords.

The Internet is getting weird...

jam
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From:  Hacksaw
Sent:  Sunday, August 25, 1996 9:33 PM
To:  ender@is.rice.edu
Cc:  netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG
Subject:  Re: HERE`S THE EASIEST JOB YOU`LL EVER H

Well, I sent the sender, and the postmasters of the apparently origin
of the sily thing a nastygram. I'd suggest you do the same. Those with
time and resources may want to sen the info on to the Post Office, and
maybe even a snail-mail nastgram.

Alternatively, if you receive such things in your regular e-mail, you
might consider sedning them a bill for your valuable time. I charge my
usual consulting rates for such silliness, $100/hour, one hour
minimum.

In any case, send a nastygram at the very least, not only to the
person but to the mail provider (in this case albany.net), so they can
see what their customers are perpetrating. Enough complaints usual
brings action from the sysadmin.
 --
Hacksaw