Noting that the return address was "post1.com", I visited:
http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois, typed in the domain and came up
with:
Singapore Press Holdings (POST7-DOM)
82 Genting Lane, News Centre
Singapore, Singapore 349567
SG
Domain Name: POST1.COM
Administrative Contact:
Au-Yong, Karen (KA620) kauyong@CYBERWAY.COM.SG
(65) 7401477 (FAX) (65) 8422902
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Chung, Angelia (AC1269) angie@ASIA1.COM.SG
(65) 7401719 (FAX) (65) 8422902
So I went up the food chain and complained to root at the various
domains. I went back and looked at some other spam I had received and
realized that it came from the same source since the domain matched that
of the Admin contact above. But what confuses me is the connection to
our favorite anarchist:
HipCrime International (HIPCRIME-DOM)
666 First Street at Arguello
San Francisco, CA 94122
Domain Name: HIPCRIME.COM
Administrative Contact:
Robert, Returned (RR1563) robert@HIPCRIME.COM
none given (FAX) none taken
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Whitall, James (JW3426) hipcrime@POST1.COM
none given (FAX) none taken
Note the domain of the technical contact? ... The plot thickens...
If that isn't weird enough, check this out from the Post One Acceptable
Use Policy (http://www.post1.com/about/puse.html):
1.This free service is a privilege and not a right. Spamming is an
abuse of this privilege.
2.We reserve the right to remove mass mail of an advertising nature.
?????????!!!!!
Anyway, note the sociopathic justification for spamming me below? ...
Yeah, right. Maybe I'll train one of my droids on him and flood him
with *my* views of the world. Heh-heh-heh...
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Subject: [Fwd: http://home.earthlink.net/~dunig -- where World Wide Web
worms wiggle.]
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 06:31:56 -0500
From: Mitch Allen <mitch@webdroid.com>
Organization: WebDroid - http://www.webdroid.com
To: root@post1.com, root@cyberway.com.sg, root@asia1.com.sg
CC: kauyong@CYBERWAY.COM.SG, angie@ASIA1.COM.SG
Please remove me from the list your SPAMBOT has apparently generated.
SPAMBOT's are consider a bad thing by most and usually end up alienating
the clients who use them. I've also received a junk e-mail referring
to: http://www.cyberway.com.sg/~icepoint/.
--Subject: http://home.earthlink.net/~dunig -- where World Wide Web worms wiggle. Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:20:39 -0600 (CST) From: ActiveAgent@post1.com
Privacy Alert: Did you know your Email address is publicly available?
If you're aware of this fact, kindly disregard this message; otherwise, please note that it's been published on an unprotected, openly-linked web-page, that any person or program can access at:
http://www.flinet.com/~rummy/javahtml/guestbook.html
This public service announcement was brought to you by ActiveAgent, a shareware Java webcrawler, whose development has been sponsored by:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dunig -- where World Wide Web worms wiggle.
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