Article 747 of alt.college.tunnels: Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!hsdndev!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!kjc From: kjc@aramis.rutgers.edu (Kelly J. Cooper) Newsgroups: alt.college.tunnels Subject: Read on to flame the Green Card Guys... Keywords: "I call upon the power of the Cabal and consign you to the flames." Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 94 20:38:55 GMT Organization: LCSR @ Rutgers University Lines: 122 DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT ASSOCIATED WITH INDIRECT.COM! Open your eyes, note my .edu address, don't reply to me, buy a clue, pick up two, understand that *I* can spell, etc. etc. etc. Anyway, this showed up in my mailbox today, and since I only post to this group and perhaps 2 others, I thought I'd share it with ya'll... Headers got trimmed in the resends (although I wish I had 'em). The twinkies have lost their indirect.com accounts, but if you're really annoyed, drop them some snail-mail. Kelly J. Cooper kjc@cs.rutgers.edu ---BEGIN INCLUDED--- >Y'all must have seen that "Green Card Lottery" post that some bozos >posted individually to every newsgroup on the net (including >local de. groups, somehow). the response from indirect.com, the >bozos' net host: [heh.] * N O T I C E * !!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Read !!!!!!!!!!!!!! *************************************************************************** Since last night our systems have been operating under extreme stress, averaging workloads and processes five times greater than our previous peak usage. We expect this to continue for at least the next 24 hours. Disruption of the systems can cause slowing of the system, inability to telnet or ftp out of this system, delays in sending or receiving mail, and possible stopping of certain processes. This was caused when one of our users posted an article to every USENET News group possible. This has disrupted News distribution worldwide and has caused our systems to be flooded with thousands of e-mail messages >from around the world totaling over 100 Megabytes of mail to our system. This mail continues to flood in, as do the phone calls. If you wish to see what initiated the disruption to our system, you can look in just about any newsgroup for the post that has aroused strong feelings in thousands of people. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our users, as well as users around the world. If you have strong feelings about this issue, we urge you to contact the individuals responsible for this posting: Canter and Siegel, Immigration Attorneys PHONE: 602 - 661 - 3911 ADDRESS: 3333 E. Camelback Rd., Ste 250 Phoenix, Arizona USA 85018 INTERNET DIRECT RESPONSE TO THIS INCIDENT We have disabled the accounts responsible for causing these problems, and are currently spooling and zipping all mail to these accounts so they don't corrupt and destroy any user e-mail. We have also ordered upgraded equipment to attempt to handle any further problems that may arise. We are compiling a FAQ which we shall distribute to all users and make available for world view on net etiquette and posting to USENET NEWS. We have always had some material related to responsible use of the Internet, and will be adding more. We wish to apologize for this irresponsible use of the system. We will be working to create a way to stop this type of abusive posting, and would welcome any recommendations. We expect that this will not happen again, and we are rewriting our user contracts so as to make users liable for this type of action. Unfortunately, this incident was caused by a law firm, Canter & Siegel, who believe they have found a loophole in the contract which allows them to post in a manner we feel to be irresponsible. In fact, this law firm has threatened to sue us for $250,000 if we try to block their mail in any way. BTW - The loophole they think they have found is that they never signed the user agreement and say we have an "implied contract" with them.... We mailed an agreement to them, but they never returned it. * N O T I C E * !!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Read !!!!!!!!!!!!!! *************************************************************************** Recently, one of our users posted an Adverti>

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