Where to complain about "Web announcement" spam

Doug Yanega dyanega at DENR1.IGIS.UIUC.EDU
Tue Feb 20 15:39:40 CST 1996


For those of you, like me, who find commercial advertisements on mailing
lists intolerable, here's what I was able to find out about this latest
one:

>To: dyanega at denr1.igis.uiuc.edu (Doug Yanega)
>Subject: Re: VANITYMAIL LISTSERV SPAM: Where do I complain?
>X-Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
>Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
>Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:25:10 -0500
>From: Chris Siebenmann <cks at hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
>
> It appears complaints can be directed to dns at webdirect.ca,
>dns at intsolutions.com, and perhaps dknapp at westel.com and likely
>postmaster at mci.net if the above fail to produce satisfaction.
>Unfortunately it looks like vanitymail.com gets its stuff
>through webdirect.ca which gets it from WesTel Telecommunications
>who's DNS management appears to run out of a place called
>cyberstore.ca -- so WesTel may not be very helpful.
>
>cks at hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu              ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks
>

Doug Yanega       Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA      phone (217) 244-6817, fax (217) 333-4949
 affiliate, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Entomology
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        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82




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