From: Mark Roberts Subject: Re: The three stages of the chickenboner Date: 02 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <5l3rbskp4efretmog79t51mo9slrh3gcfo@4ax.com> <38c3fa9d.86361761@news.mem.bellsouth.net> Organization: RobertsTech Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 05:23:08 GMT, spam.here.not@kudzucountry.com (Wm James) wrote: >On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:29:11 -0500, Ron Ritzman >wrote: > >>just about every chickenboner whose antics get bought to the >>attention of us (tinu) goes through these stages. The chickenboner >>might skip a stage but it always happens in this order. >> >>Stage 1 "Who little old me?". The chickenboner is caught spamming. >>First he feigns innocence and acts so surprised. >> >>Stage 2 "You're playing with the big boys now" >> >>Here the chickenboner is trying to convince you that you are messing >>with a big mover and shaker in the business world and you have better >>restore his account (or retract your "slanderous" comments or withdraw >>your complain/RBL nomination or whatever) or he will sick his army of >>Harvard trained lawyers on you. >> >>Stage 3 "I'm gonna git U sucka" At this stage the chickenboner has >>lost and he knows it. The only thing left is to exact retribution from >>those who the chickenboner believes have wronged him. >> >>Terri DeSisto and HipCrime/Bluelister have been stuck at stage 3 for >>years. >I do believe you have pegged them rather precisely. Remember when Sam Khuri first appeared? Perhaps this will refresh your memory: From the Atlanta Constitution: * * * * * * * *Begin Excerpt* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * E-mail Mishap Halts Genealogy Service Researchers, buffs lose a valuable tool by Art Kramer A Dunwoody retailer said he unwittingly started a chain of junk e-mail that undermined one of the most popular exchanges of genealogy information on the Intenet. The shutdown is depriving tens of thousands of genealogy buffs of their most effective online research tool, said John Rigdon, national coordinator of The USGenWeb Project, a genealogy clearinghouse on the World Wide Web. The disaster began when Sam Khuri, general manager of Benchmart Print Supply, sent a $100 money order to the post office box of a company that promised to advertise his service to 50,000 potential customers. "If I knew what they were going to do, I never would have sent the money," said Khuri, whose company recycles toner cartridges for copiers. The contractor, whose identity Khuri said he lost in a computer crash of his own, e-mailed thousands of ads touting Khuri's service last week. The junk e-mail was routed through Indiana University computers, making it appear the ads had come from the same computers that are home to the genealogy lists. * * * * * * * *End Excerpt* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Classic Stage One, eh?