I doubt it. Both of his accounts were already bouncing mail last
night (which probably means he blew his wad [of spam] and moved
on). I got the same response from postmater@sprynet.com within
minutes, too, which I took as another sign that they'd aready
been inundated with complaints. They either have a filter set up
to catch phrases like "spam" or "junk" or "Pflaum" and
automatically bounce out this form letter.
Here's the insidiousness of Pflaum: he spams the world, the world
spams his postmasters (& probably tries to spam him, but he's
moved on), the postmasters generate form responses to send back
to the complaintants. By the time the complaintants are done, we
& the postmasters have probably sucked up as much bandwidth as
Pflaum originaly had. Spam is a virus.
So I propose in the future we all just ignore Pflaum's posts &
not respond to the list or the postmasters. Every time I've
complained to his postmasters, they've already been aware of his
doings or he's already closed that account.
OR....heh heh, my litiginous mind just had a beautiful idea.
Someone on this list had to be an Internet provider, right?
Chris? JP? We track down this guys current account, offer him
access for free or at some ridiculously low rate he can't pass up
(making it look like some regular advertisement), but include in
the fine print of the service contract language explicitly
prohibiting the user from using it to distribute junk mail. Wait
until he does so, THEN SUE HIS SORRY ASS OFF AND TAKE HIM FOR
EVERYTHING HE OWNS, NO MATTER HOW LITTLE IT IS. :)
Heh heh.
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