[NCLUG] Spam from a Fort Collins company!

[Daniel Miles]

hmmm, nope didn't get that one

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:40:37 -0700
Michael Dwyer <mdwyer at sixthdimension.com> wrote:

> Daniel Miles wrote:
> > 
> > I get a lot of spam, which letter was this?
> 
> It was a message from "Web Your Business - Fort Collins" on 21 Jan.  It
> assume that it was sent to people with WHOIS records pointing to Fort
> Collins addresses -- or maybe possibly to people hosting at FRII.  I got
> it at my FRII-hosted domain, but not my Yahoo-hosted one.
> 
> The headers and message look a little like this:
> 
> From Web Your Business - Fort Collins Mon Jan 21 21:39:29 2002
> Received: from ns3.webyourbusiness.com (64.239.52.13)  21 Jan 2002
> 21:58:28 -0800 (PST)
> Received: (from admin at localhost) by ns3.webyourbusiness.com  22 Jan 2002
> 00:39:29 -0500
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:39:29 -0500
> Subject: Your Web Site
> From: "Web Your Business - Fort Collins" <info at webyourbusiness.com>
> 
> We would like to save you some money... yes, SAVE YOU MONEY...
> 
> With the domain - trail100.com -  you're probably paying quite a lot in
> hosting fees... if it's more than $12.50 per month - we can SAVE YOU
> MONEY.
> 
> Host with Web Your Business in Fort Collins, and we will cost you LESS
> than you are paying now.
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 
> I have complained to their upstream, without any result yet.  I haven't
> talked to the BBB, yet.  I already have a complaint going through
> channels with them, and I don't want to jinx it, since it is possibly
> worth more than the $10 this one is...  Anyway, the message I BCC'd to
> the list got a reply:
> 
> >> As a resident of Fort Collins, Colorado, I'm suprised that you seem to
> >> be unaware of the Colorado Anti-Spam laws:
> >> http://www.ago.state.co.us/CONSPROT/junkeml.stm
> >> In particular, your unsolicited commercial e-mail to me lacks a removal
> >> process and the "ADV: " subject tag.  Your mistake allows me to collect
> >> $10 from you.
> >
> > Please feel free to enforce it civilly through the courts.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Greg Hewitt-Long - Company President
> >
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