reported to abuse

[Xandros]

reported to (e-mail address removed)

Hopefully they will do something to protect all of the rest of us.

 

[Poprivet`]

reported to (e-mail address removed)

Hopefully they will do something to protect all of
the
rest of us.

KUDOS. But what was reported?

 

[Xandros]

KUDOS. But what was reported?

A copy of the post was sent with this message --

"Hi. Can you folks do something about this guy posting his paranoid rants on
the newsgroups?
Thanks"

 

[Poprivet`]

A copy of the post was sent with this message --

"Hi. Can you folks do something about this guy
posting
his paranoid rants on the newsgroups?
Thanks"

f'ups set to here:

Thanks Xandros, that's what I wanted to know. Unless
you parsed the actual Headers of that message, MS was
the wrong place to send it. In reality MS has nothing
to do with these groups other than maybe provide a
little server support. The proper place to report
abuse to is the *abuser's* ISP or the one above that
one. The trick is not to send it to the abuser, so
that his ISP will kill his accounts.
It's also a waste of time to copy such info to so
many places. That's why I set f'ups on this. You
should have trimmed out the groups yourself.

If you'd like some links to learn how to read Headers,
just ask and I'll post some for you. Or you can
research them on your own too.

Pop`

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

You report it to "abuse" at the ISP of the sender, not microsoft.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

That is like telling someone who's home has been burglarized that they must
report it to the police department of the city that the burglar lives in.
Yes, that is the policy of most ISPs and probably the case here but the
internet would be a better place if more people would expect better.

I do not know how much the phone company investigates reports of abuse of
the phone system but I have reported problems that they insist they cannot
do anything about but then the problem gets fixed. So it is difficult to say
if ISPs can do something about abuse of the internet even if they insist it
is not their job. Therefore it might be useful for many people to report
problems. I do not know but there is a possibility it would be effective.

You report it to "abuse" at the ISP of the sender, not microsoft.

reported to (e-mail address removed)

Hopefully they will do something to protect all of the rest of us.

 

[Poprivet`]

That is like telling someone who's home has been burglarized that
they must report it to the police department of the city that the
burglar lives in. Yes, that is the policy of most ISPs and probably
the case here but the internet would be a better place if more people
would expect better.
I do not know how much the phone company investigates reports of
abuse of the phone system but I have reported problems that they
insist they cannot do anything about but then the problem gets fixed.
So it is difficult to say if ISPs can do something about abuse of the
internet even if they insist it is not their job. Therefore it might
be useful for many people to report problems. I do not know but there
is a possibility it would be effective.

It is, in the instances where the ISP cares and is a good netizen. It
matters not to the ISPs who make money that way and/or are just too
ignorant or too lazy to care. It only takes a few of the latter to make
them all look bad.

You report it to "abuse" at the ISP of the sender, not microsoft.

reported to (e-mail address removed)

Hopefully they will do something to protect all of the rest of us.