Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 02:18:05
To: khskllp@aol.com
From: Christopher Flaherty <chrisf@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Cease And Desist Flaming
Cc: webmaster@compuserve.com, abuse@compuserve.com, abuse@aol.com, webmaster@sailahead.com, abuse@mindspring.com, abuse@uu.net, postmaster@www.kia.co.kr, postmaster@sailahead.com, postmaster@samsung.com
X-Attachments: C:\PIPEPLUS\DOWNLOAD\CHRIS\THREAT.TXT; C:\PIPEPLUS\DOWNLOAD\CHRIS\THREAT02.TXT;
I would like all the postmasters involved to take a good look at the
headers and the content of all the messages I have enclosed in my
attachments--and especially within the message immediately below.
The sender of that message insists that they have a legal right to
spam, saying that "spamming is a protected activity under the laws
of free speech," which no doubt contradicts the user agreements of
every single domain which I am addressing.
Apparently, I am being accused of "inflammatory internet hacking,
telephone hacking, flaming, jamming, and other illegal activities,"
when all I have done is reply to unsolicited spam which I did not ask
to receive in my mailbox. I am being accused of "internet terrorism,"
when all I did was tell the alleged senders how much I despised
receiving their unsolicited mail in the first place.
For the record, I have not engaged in any of the above "illegal
activities" or so-called "internet terrorism" of which I am accused.
All I have done is reply to unsolicited email, which the Supreme Court
has recently affirmed that I have every right to do, according to the
First Amendment. In contrast, however, there are at least 3 bills
being considered by Congress which would create harsh penalties for
unsolicited commercial email--a.k.a. spam. Perhaps the sender of the
email below should be more concerned with that than with threatening
legal action.
In addition, I also suspect that the email below is forged, since the
"Return-Path," "Reply-To," and "Authenticated Sender" addresses are
all different ("Return-Path:
I invite all the postmasters to carefully investigate my attached
email and the sender of the "Cease And Desist" notice. I don't like
being threatened, and I'm sure all the ISP's involved (as well as
Samsung) don't like their names being dragged through the mud.
Attached are 2 .txt files, each documenting the correspondances which
resulted from my receipt of unsolicited email which was traced back
to sailahead.com in some form.
Thank you for your attention,
Christopher Flaherty
View the original threat once again to
refresh your memory.
View the spam from "Bible Mysteries" and my replies to it here.
View the spam from "The Sailahead Mall" and
my replies to it here.
chrisf@pipeline.com