[PLUG] Now THIS is funny.

Tue Sep 24 16:53:23 UTC 2002

This morning I'm going through the admin interface to the PLUG list, 
trying to see if I can't get a handle on Richard Seymour's email 
problems.  I check the blocked mail interface to see if anything 
interesting is in there, and reject a bunch of spam, let a couple of 
non-subscribed mails through, and find something from someone 
threatening legal action against PLUG.  Eh?

So I check out the link that this guy supposedly says exists, and I 
can't find *anything* on the plug website pointing back to his site.  So 
I do a google search on 'pdxlinux teambooks' - teambooks being where 
this guy says he's from.  I get ONE hit on the plug archive: 
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2002-July/006501.html

In short - a message from Sandy Herring outlining how he was spammed by 
these guys 48 times.  And now they have the gall to think that they can 
claim legal action against a non-profit for whatever they think WE did 
wrong (by archiving a public email?).  Anyway, I'll leave the legal 
mumbo-jumbo to the 'real' admins, but I thought this would be worth a 
chuckle.

Here's the mail:

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From: "Barry Bohaychuk" <barry at teambooks.com>
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Subject: You have an advertisement on TeamBooks in your database which 
must be removed before we start legal action!
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:02:51 -0600
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have no choice but to file claim for damages caused by your advertising =
both under copyright law and loss of credibility.

Jon Douglas
Legal Department
barry at teambooks.com
http://www.teambooks.com
Building Winning Teams!

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