On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:37:07 -0500, Steve wrote
(in message <[email hidden]>😉:
Quoted message said:I notice Mu is posting through news.uni-berlin.de again. They are much less tolerant of abuse than
BellSouth and force you to have a vaild email address (although Mu has obviously grabbed a
"throwaway" one from yahoo for the purpose).
Here is a link to their policy page:
news.individual.netrules.htmlOpen ↗
The two posted policies which he routinely violates are:
* Netiquette Most hierarchies of Usenet have their own netiquette and guidelines. Users should
pay attention to the relevant policies. =A0 *=09No SPAM It is inadmissible to use this server
to post SPAM. (To spam Usenet means to send many identical or nearly-identical messages
separately to a large number of Usenet newsgroups.)
Complaints can be emailed to: [email hidden]
Sorry. Correction. Complaints should be emailed to [email hidden]. See below:
*=09Substantial abuse (SPAM, rogue cancel) Please turn to [email hidden] in such cases,
attaching at least one complete article header if possible.
What should an abuse report look like so that it can be dealt with most efficiently?
*=09Choose or adjust the subject of your mail with care Put something like "Complaint" or "SPAM:" at
the _beginning_ of your subject line if you keep the original subject of the posting. Otherwise we
might mistake your mail for SPAM and delete it unread. If you want to do us a favor and know how to
get the information required, you can add the author's user-ID i.e. "Subject: [1234567] SPAM:
Hottest site in town..."
*=09Mail your abuse report to "[email hidden]" Do NOT mail it to "postmaster" or "webmaster".
These services (mail and www) are taken care of by other people so that your abuse report will need
to be forwarded to us.
*=09Tell us the reason for your complaint It may be obvious for you, but sometimes it is hard for us
to quickly identify the reason for your complaint if you only send us the article in question. It
helps us a lot if you state briefly what you are complaining about.
*=09Include the message-ID To be able to react quickly we need the message-ID or (even better) the
entire header of the posting in question. You normally do not need to quote the body of the article.
*=09One mail is enough We take care of every abuse report. In addition to the automatic reply when
we get your mail (to [email hidden]) everyone should receive an individual answer. This usually
happens within 24 hours, but may take a bit longer in some cases. If you send us several mails about
the same "case", you will not speed things up but just give us more work.
--
Steve
Weeding the Lord's Vineyards Since 2003