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Subject: Frontier Justice. Wonder when they will blacklist people they
>From: boldt@emile.math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt) >Newsgroups: >alt.internet.services,alt.culture.internet,alt.culture.usenet,biz.misc,comp.mai >l.misc,news.admin.policy >Subject: The Internet Advertiser's Blacklist >Followup-To: alt.internet.services >Date: 13 Dec 1994 19:12:11 GMT >Organization: Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Dept. of Mathematics >Lines: 193 >Distribution: world >Message-ID: <BOLDT.94Dec13111211@emile.math.ucsb.edu> >NNTP-Posting-Host: emile.math.ucsb.edu >Xref: transit.nyser.net alt.internet.services:31086 alt.culture.internet:5059 >alt.culture.usenet:5473 biz.misc:8923 comp.mail.misc:16176 >news.admin.policy:18665 > > > THE INTERNET ADVERTISER'S BLACKLIST > > * 1. What is this? > * 2. Who gets included? > * 3. What is the philosophy behind it? > * 4. What can I do with it? > * 5. What if I wanted to punish YOU? > * 6. What other blacklists are out there? > * 7. How can I help? > * 8. The Blacklist in itself. > >1. What is this? > > This is the Internet Advertiser's Blacklist. It is intended to curb > inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail. It > works by describing offenders and their offensive behavior, expecting > that people who read it will punish the offenders in one way or > another. > > The list is posted regularly to several newsgroups and the most recent > version is always available over the WWW as > http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/blacklist.html. > >2. Who gets included? > > Everyone who is pointed out to me for sending out unsolicited > commercial e-mail or posting inappropriate commercials to usenet > newsgroups. The word "inappropriate" in the last sentence is defined > by me on a case by case basis and depends mainly on the number of > complaints I receive. > >3. What is the philosophy behind it? > > In a nutshell: the Internet is probably as close to an anarchy as we > can get. This is good. Therefore, punishing of unwelcome behavior > should be done following the same grass roots philosophy that governs > the rest of the net. Read more about it in > http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/blacklist_philosophy.html. > >4. What can I do with it? > > If you judge that one of the described behaviors is worthy of > punishment, you could for example do one of the following. (Note that > some of these might be illegal in some jurisdictions. Check the books > first and don't blame me.) > * Boycott the advertising business. > * Send them or their sysadmins a message informing them that you > disapprove of their behavior. > * Put them in you kill file. (Read all about rn and trn kill files > in > http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/killfile-faq/ > faq.html.) > * Filter them out of your mailbox. (If you read mail on a unix host, > you might want to use the program procmail for that, which can be > gotten via anonymous ftp from syd.dit.csiro.au as > /pub/ken/procmail-3.03.tar.gz. Another possibility is filter, > which comes with the mail reader elm.) > * Use procmail and an AI engine like emacs doctor to engage them in > a fake mail dialog. > * If you are a system operator, you could stop forwarding mail or > news originating from them. > * If you operate a cancelbot, you could automatically cancel all > postings originating from them. > * Say individuals A and B are on the list. You can send an e-mail > message to B with fake From-header A saying "I'm interested in > your product/service." In this fashion, the advertisers will start > to bug each other, end up on each others mailing lists and waste > time and money. > >5. What if I wanted to punish YOU? > > Well, in principle you could use the measures from question 4 (except > the first and last one) or you could even start a blacklist of > blacklist maintainers. But why would you want to do such an evil thing > to me, your humble servant? > >6. What other blacklists are out there? > > I'm aware of one blacklist operated by Pierre Beyssac > <pb@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> which tries to keep the french usenet > hierarchy fr clean of commercials and is posted regularly to the > groups fr.news.reponses, fr.news.divers and fr.biz.d. > >7. How can I help? > > * If you encounter an instance of offensive advertising on the > internet, tell me about it. My e-mail address is > boldt@math.ucsb.edu; please use the word "Blacklist" somewhere > in the subject line. Make sure to check the last version of the > list first so that I won't get multiple complaints about > incidents already covered! The newest version is always available > over the WWW as > http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/blacklist.html. > * Feel free to contact me if you find that any information in this > document is inaccurate. > * Please start your own blacklist and tell me about it. I will > include a pointer to it here. > * Let me know about any creative suggestions for the answer to > question 4. > * Don't let anyone know about any creative suggestions for the > answer to question 5. > * Distribute this list widely. > * If you know where to find a copy of the original C&S greencard > posting, please tell me. > > 8. THE BLACKLIST IN ITSELF > > I have formatted it in such a way to make automatic processing easy. > Every entry can contain some or all off the fields ID, Name, Address, > Phone, Email, WWW, Entered, Changed, Behavior, Remarks in this order. > A line starting with whitespace is a continuation of the preceding > line. Several Names, e-mail or WWW addresses etc. are separated by > commas and optional whitespace. Blank lines separate the entries. > Every entry has a unique ID so that your program can decide if it has > processed that entry before when a new list arrives. Furthermore, the > original offensive article is accessible as > http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/BL/<ID>.txt where the true ID > is to be substituted for <ID>. > >===Blacklist start=== > >ID: CS941211 >Name: L. Canter, M. Siegel >Address: 3333 East Camelback Road, Suite 250, Phoenix, AZ 85260, USA > Cybersell, P.O.Box 13510, Scottsdale, AZ 85267, USA >Phone: (602) 661-3911 >Email: lcanter@cyber.sell.com, msiegel@cyber.sell.com, > market@cyber.sell.com >WWW: http://cyber.sell.com/ >Entered: 1994/12/11 >Behavior: The famous greencard lawyers. In 1994, they repeatedly sent > out a message offering their services in helping to enter > the US greencard lottery to almost all usenet newsgroups. > (Note in passing: they charged $100 for their service, while > participating in the greencard lottery is free and consists > merely of sending a letter with your personal information at the > right time to the right place.) When the incoming mail bombs > forced their access provider to terminate their account, > they threatened to sue him until he finally agreed to > forward all responses to them. > They have signed an agreement with their current access > provider, PSI, to refrain from sending out junk e-mail or > spamming usenet. The text is available over the net as > http://www.psi.com/press/Canter-Siegal-6-23.html. > They have since written a book, "How to Make a Fortune on > the Information Superhighway" and founded an internet > advertising company, Cybersell. The book promotes several > advertising strategies on the internet including gathering > addresses from usenet and sending out junk e-mail, posting > commercials to inappropriate newsgroups like they did, > advertising on irc and even via talk. They basically contend > that all these behaviors are legal and therfore ok. > They ridicule the terms "internet culture" and "netiquette" > and claim that the internet, once all real-world laws are > applied to it, will make a great source of income for > attorneys. > This book has inspired cancelbots and this list and has > earned them a permanent first place on it. >Remarks: Don't bug the poor guys at cybersell.com, they were the access > providers for C&S during their first spam...:-) > >ID: PG941211 >Name: Peter Gordon, OneWorld OnLine NOOK >Address: 794 Fort Street, Box 38026, Victoria, BC, V8W 1H0, CANADA > 1275 Pembroke Street, Unit 1, Victoria, B.C. V8T 1J7, CANADA >Phone: (604) 592-7953, (604) 385-3694 >Email: peter@nook.com, peter@carver.DataFlux.BC.CA, > offer@nook.com, info@nook.com >Entered: 1994/12/11 >Behavior: Sent out junk e-mail on 1994/12/11 posing as Santa Claus and > offering forged e-mail as a X-mas gift for $5 apiece. >Remarks: nook.com is connected via uucp to the internet host > carver.DataFlux.BC.CA [134.87.177.20]. > >ID: NM941211 >Name: Netmart Inc. >Email: gls@netmart.com, nminfo@netmart.com >WWW: http://netmart.com/ >Entered: 1994/12/11 >Behavior: Spammed several unrelated newsgroups on 1994/12/10 with a > truly sad announcement of their WWW Mall. > >===Blacklist end=== > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Date: 1994/12/12 22:27:51 PST > (C) 1994 by Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu>. > Do with it what you want. >-- > Axel Boldt * boldt@math.ucsb.edu * http://plato.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/ >
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