On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:10:57 +1200 (NZST), Simon Lyall wrote:
Please make sure you warn your accounts people about this guy. This is at least his 4th ISP. I have the name of the police contact for this person somewhere if people want to contact me directly. I'll hunt out my old files on this guy tomorrow.
I also had someone contact me asking what can be done about this guy. The headers of the e-mail they received are below. As one can see he seems to have sent this one through a Brazilian ISP which may not be too responsive to spam complaints from NZers. Simon alluded to a police contact on this guy - is this related to spamming or other activities? The reason I am asking is the issue of how to stop him if the Brazilian ISP is unco-operative. His e-mail database is almost certainly a breach of the Privacy Act. However a complaint can take 12 - 18 months to resolve. Do people feel there would be merit in having a formal complaint filed just so one can get "case law" on the books?? Another issue is whether we should lobby Parliament for specific statute law banning spam? Up until now I have not thought it is necessary as every ISP I know of in NZ (possible exception of world-net?) bans spammers, but if NZers have easy access to overseas ISPs then maybe it is worthwhile? Opinions welcome. DPF Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [210.48.22.36]) by iprolink.co.nz (2.54.1/2.54.1) with ESMTP id EAA102840 for <xxxxxx(a)xxx.co.nz>; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 04:45:42 +1200 From: seebelow(a)belowtext.com Received: from maxsvr.silvianet.com.br (maxsvr.silvianet.com.br [200.245.118.2]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AA014900962729121; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 04:45:21 +1200 (NZST) Received: from 200.245.118.2 by maxsvr.silvianet.com.br 8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id NAA10802; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:19:35 -0300 (EST) Message-Id: <200007041619.NAA10802(a)maxsvr.silvianet.com.br> Subject: ' Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 04:31:47 +1200 X-Sender: seebelow(a)belowtext.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Apparently-To: <xxxxxx(a)xxx.co.nz> X-Envelope-To: <xxxxxx(a)xxx.co.nz> Status: ________________________________________________________________________ <david at farrar dot com> NZ Usenet FAQs - http://www.dpf.ac.nz/usenet/nz ICQ 29964527 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog