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Hi Ben, (cc'ed to BD)

To be honest, I'm a little ****ed off about all this kind of e-mail (I
thought the last one was pretty sick, but this one is just out of
order).

It appears that whoever is responsible for this has found out that we run
a list-server at Warwick, and managed to get the subscribers to
practically every majordomo mailing list run at Warwick, and has been
sending this junk to everyone from those lists. I've mailed our
postmaster to complain; apparently he already knew about this, as it's
affected an awful lot of people within the Uni (for instance, I received
this 3 times as I'm subscribed to quite a few lists here), and he told
me he'd already complained at AOL.

However, as this doesn't appear to have stopped, I'm going to complain
again myself. (I suggest if you to complain, you mail abuse@aol.com as
well as postmaster@aol.com). From the mail from our postmaster:

| A complaint has already been sent to America On-line's postmaster,
| asking for appropriate steps to be taken against the user (since this
| kind of mailing is a breach of the "Terms of Service" agreement which
| they operate, this will normally result in the account being closed).
| In addition to this, none of the Computing Services mail relays will
| now accept mail which is sent from this specific address.

Unfortunately, due to the way they've get hold of the addresses, they
have everybody's real addresses rather than just the britdisc address,
so there's not an easy solution to stopping the mail from getting
through, as it goes straight to the recipient, and not through britdisc.

I suggest you ask the postmaster at your site to block all mails
originating from Spice16402@aol.com. Most unix-based sites run sendmail
which can be configured fairly easily to refuse mail from certain
addresses.

Sorry about all this,
	Ralf.
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