From: howardk@iswest.com (Howard Knight)
Subject: Re: MCI + WorldCom = Adios to Usenet
Date: 1997/11/12
Message-ID: <64bgss$dft$1@news1.exit109.com>
References: <64a1q4$t46$1@news1.exit109.com> <34688F4B.7A8ABE1@pipex.net>
Organization: Internet Specialties West, Inc.
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet



Steve Carrie the Troller (stephenc@pipex.net) wrote:

: Howard Knight wrote:
: > 
: > WorldCom (owners of UUNet) and MCI have agreed to merge.  WorldCom
: > offered MCI 37 billion, and MCI said "OK!".  The implications for
: > what will happen to Usenet and the Internet as a whole are very
: > disturbing.  If MCI adopts UUNet's "Zero Tolerance Towards Spam,
: > But We Don't Know What Spam Is" policy, I'm throwing in the towel.
: 
: Sheesh! Paranoia.

Yes!  You better believe it!  MCI's abuse department is mediocre at
best.  UUNet's abuse department...well...do I need say more?

UUNet used to have a good reputation among the Internet community.
They were responsive to net-abuse, and took action.  That all
changed once WorldCom gobbled them up.  Who's to say that won't
do the same with MCI?

: Another stick for you to beat UUNET with then huh?

They need more than a beating.  And they don't need me to make
them look bad.  They do a damn good job of that all by themselves.
Come on...John Bradshaw, guy in charge of the abuse/security
department, doesn't even knwo what spam is!  Let me repeat that:
He doesn't even know what spam is!

: Then well have a party :)

I suppose that Jerry "'Zilla" Reynolds, Andrew "The Greatest" Chandler,
and Hank Freeman, Kevin (spam junkie) Freeman, Noel Westerlind, Rick
Westerlind (Smut Family Robinson), will all be at the party too.  Yup!...
With the "merger" (takeover) of MCI, WorldCom can now boast that it
harbors the top three Usenet spamming organizations (not to mention,
three of the biggest on-line pornography companies on the Internet).

Howard