"FREE" Bulk E-Mail Software "Explodes Your Biz"

Rachel Polanskis rachel@virago.org.au
Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:18:01 +1100 (EST)


[Posted and mailed]

To whom it may concern:
This person is promulgating a potential SPAM.
He is offering software to extract email addresses, and has spammed 
several newsgroups already - offering his software.

In the interest of those of us wishing to rid the Internet of spammers,
I am requesting you, as a responsible system administrator,
to give this person a lesson in netiquette and then revoke his account.
 
It is bad enough when an individual spams the Internet.
It is intolerable when they demonstrate the ability to allow others to 
do it with simplicity.  

Please regard this message with seriousness.
A copy of the offending message is attached below.

Rachel Polanskis

In article <3295584B.E6F@ilinks.net>,
	Johnathan Posey <jposey@ilinks.net> writes:
> Hello, "Fellow Financial Security Seeker". 
> 
> I have the answer to your business growth problems. "Free"! 
> 
> READ ON, I WILL "NOT" ASK YOU TO SPEND ANY MONEY!
>  
> RELAX, ALL IS TRULY "FREE"! I PROMISE!
> 
> That word, "FREE" is one of the biggest, and probably THE BIGGEST
> pulling
> "key word" that any person in any business can use to get maximum pull
> on
> any promotional material. 
> 
> Another Hot "word" Is "Home Business".
> Here on the internet "Computer" and "Software" are very "HOT" words.
> 
> Use these words in your subject field for any program you are promoting. 
> 
> This WILL get people to read about the "Free Software" that you are
> going to
> provide for them and "Your" business has to "EXPLODE". This is another
> great
> "POWERWORD".  
>  
> O K, I know you are saying, come on, come on, get to the catch, so I can
> trash this letter and get on with my business. 
> 
> Let me tell you NOW!
> 
> You don't want to trash this one! I "WILL" give you absolutely "Free" a
> New
> Software called Freedom, that sells for $400. I WILL NOT ASK FOR ANY
> MONEY!
> 
> This Great, easy to use, software allows you to extract email addresses
> from
> the newsgroups, AOL subscribers, Compuserve, Etc.
> 
> Freedom has many features, including easy extractions of the addresses
> you
> need to flag for removal. You can extract a "batch" of a few hundred, or
> a
> "catagory" of thousands at a time.
> 
> Just think for a minute what this will mean to your business when you
> are
> able to "GIVE FREEDOM" to your entire downline to use.
> 
> That's RIGHT! Not only am I going to give Freedom to you, I will
> authorize
> you to give Freedom to your entire downline.
> 
> Will your business "EXPLODE"? 
> 
> You bet it will! 
> 
> IT HAS TO!!!!
> 
> You will become a part of the "ONLY DOWNLINE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD" THAT
> HAS
> THIS CAPABLITY!
> 
> I WILL "NOT" ASK YOU FOR EVEN ONE THIN DIME! 
> 
>  Along with Freedom, I provide you a "GREAT", "FREE BUSINESS", that you
> can
> promote on the internet and off. 
> 
> "FREE"!!!
> 
>  Use Freedom in the business I provide for you, use Freedom in your
> current
> business. 
> 
> Use Freedom in a future business. It's Free! It is Yours!
> 
> For quick and "FREE" details, just send an email with FREEDOM in the
> subject.
> 
>                                     You're gonna Love me, Johnathan
> Posey
>  
> 
>     
>       Johnathan Posey
> 613 Montrose Parkway
> Norcross, GA. 30092
> E-Mail jposey@usa.net
> 770-441-3694
> 
> "EVERYONE WANTS AND NEEDS LOWER LONG DISTANCE RATES" 
> You can give it to them, and earn a large continous income!!  
> 9.9 cents per min interstate long distance Peak Time,"ANYTIME" 
> 13.9 cpm 800# "ANYTIME" 17.9 cpm calling card,NO ACCESS FEE,
> VERY Low intrastate rates. ONLY 3.50 per mo. service fee. NO CATCHES!!
> 
> "Free Home Business Opportunity", Check it out at:
> http://www.webspawner.com/users/jposey/
> 
> All WealthCom Forms/Information can be accessed and downloaded at:
> http://www.swinteractive.com/wnet/
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
>    greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in
>    peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms.  Crouch down and lick
> the
>    hand that feeds you.  May your chains set lightly upon you; and may
>    posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.             - Samuel
> Adams
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia 
grove@zeta.org.au                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au    http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/ccd/
                Witty comment revoked due to funding cuts