Shame on SMS, the selfish ones

> I want to see them struck down by The Wrath of Roadie.

I actually prefer education and enlightenment to leaving a smoking crater behind, but let's see if we can open a dialog with them.

Had a very lively discussion just now with a person (not Sona) who also wanted to know what message board to remove from their blasting list. Advised him it was way beyond that now, and he had to commit to cease spamming ANY message forum. Also advised him I was going to call for a general boycott and blacklisting of his site today, on a network admin's forum ready by perhaps 30,000 people in a position to defend their private property against their theft and trespass. I can't control how my colleagues administer their filters, and my advice is not gospel, but so-called "Christian" spammers are a special annoyance, because of their deep-seated hypocracy.

As I said before, spam is theft and trespass, and violating the express posted rules for a message forum (or any Internet resource for that matter) should be an embarassment for SMS and should have been cause for an apology and for them to cease and desist, rather than multiple postings of a scripture-based rationalization for their violation of their hosting contract with Internap.

http://www.internap.com/about/policies.html

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Customers shall not use, nor shall it permit others to use, the Services

1. for any unlawful, immoral, invasive, infringing, defamatory, fraudulent, or obscene purpose;

2. to send unsolicited email of any kind, regardless of the content or nature of such messages or post the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups;

3. to send any virus, worm, Trojan horse or harmful code or attachment;

4. to alter, steal, corrupt, disable, destroy, trespass or violate any security or encryption of any computer file, database or network;

5. so as to interfere with the use of the Internap network by other customers or authorized users;

6. in a manner that is inconsistent with Internap routing policies;

7. in violation of the acceptable use policies of the Internap® backbone providers; or

8. in a manner which, in the Internap® opinion, is inconsistent with the generally accepted rules of Internet etiquette and conduct.

SMS: to use your own belief system to phrase the question - What Would J***s Do?

Would he annoy his neighbors in the global community of the Internet?

Would he violate their trust and trespass?

Would he agree to a contract and then turn around and break it, thus making his agreement a bald-faced lie?

I think not.

Shame on you. On the Internet, *we* are the higher authority you answer to. Network owners have absolute control over their dominions.

Mel - send reports to Internap. They have 29 current SBL (Spamhaus Blocklist) entries, so they look like a spam-tolerant operation, precisely the kind of place that SMS would arrange hosting with. But the reports should be on file, and this incident will be archived, so anyone performing due diligence research on them as a potential vendor will get the truth about their selfishness.