From: spamless@pacbell.net (Doug Mackall) Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins Subject: UDP NOTICE: Netcom.com Date: 14 Feb 1998 04:33:41 GMT Organization: Cabal Network Security Message-ID: Posted to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Posted seperately to news.admin.net-abuse.policy and news.admin.announce Mailed to abuse@netcom.com Despite repeated complaints about usenet spam originating from Netcom's news servers, Netcom US has not only not acted to solve the problem but has ignored the growing public outcry against this problem. After several days of discussion of a potential UDP against Netcom US in a public forum they still remain silent, and the spam continues unabated. Since it appears to be the corporate policy of Netcom US to ignore complaints of spam, and to ignore abuse of their systems by spammers, a full active Usenet Death Penalty of Netcom US will be instituted beginning at the close of business 17:00 PST, Friday, February 20, 1998. This action shall remain in effect until such time as Netcom US dramatically reduces the amount of usenet spam originating from its servers, and publicly declares a solid anti spam policy which includes giving it's abuse department the authority to suspend or terminate accounts that have been determined to be the source of abuse. It is our sincere hope that Netcom US will respond favourably to these issues before the implementation of a UDP is necessary. It should be made clear that this action does not apply to Netcom Canada or Netcom UK or their customers. If and when this action takes place, those sites that do not wish to participate can alias out the psuedosite "netcomusudp" to avoid the UDP cancel messages. Any site wishing to avoid all UDP actions may alias out the psuedosite "udpcancel" to avoid all such messages. Douglas Mackall -- All postings to news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins are unconfirmed and unverified unless stated otherwise by the moderators. All opinions expressed above are considered the opinions of the original poster, not the moderators or their respective employers. For a copy of the guidelines to this group, see: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/nana/