1) Make sure everyone on this and other LBC lists knows who this person is
(name, address, telephone, email, etc).
2) Maintain a list of those individuals that pull scams like this so that
others and especially newcomers to these LBC lists can be made aware.
3) Don't discount getting the law involved. A person doing a similar scam
through one of the Ham Radio lists that I belong to will now have 5 years
behind bars to think about what he did.
Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim [mailto:jdeatsc1@rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 4:20 PM
To: richard bonilla
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: A Suitable Punishment: Was Burned on the net
besides, a jerk like this one won't be bothered by our interest.
He HAS no conscience nor does he care about retribution.
richard bonilla wrote:
> yea...i think i agree with keith on this one...it seems we are standing on
> the famous
> "slippery slope" if we start using the spit list to hammer people that
> practice bad
> business...maybe a single short post or reference on good or bad to assist
> others
> but if we want to organize some sort of group effort to "drop the piano"
on
> someone..
> we should probably do it off of the list...my .02...richard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith R. Stewart <kstewart@wwdc.com>
> To: Mark Milotay <mark.milotay@onthemark.bc.ca>; Fred Griffiths
> <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: A Suitable Punishment: Was Burned on the net
>
> >
> > Mark Milotay wrote:
> > >
> > > Let's help Fred out on this. If he was to give us all the miscreants
> > email
> > > address, we could all forward on the various junk emails that we find
> > > ourselves plagued with. This bombing of messages offering him XXX
sites,
> > > and make money quick opportunities might be just the form of
irritation
> > to
> > > force him on to the straight and narrow. That is unless he turns out
to
> > be
> > > like the fellow that offered to sell a friend of mine an MGA TC
engine,
> > but
> > > turned out to be operating out of a Federal Pen at a payphone with a
> copy
> > > of Hemmings. I think that we owe it to maintaining the sanctity of the
> > Net
> > > to abuse him into good behaviour.
> > >
> > > - Mark
> > >
> > Sorry Mark, I have to disagree with you and the others who have already
> > responded. While I do sympathize with Fred and wish there was something
> > that we could do to help him out, wasting bandwidth and the internet
> itself
> > in such a frivolous way flys in the face of the etiquette of this
fabulous
> > resource we have at our disposal. A local visit, and other possible
> > solutions might help Fred get his money or his goods, but wasting this
> > resource that MJB has provided for us in such a manner is not the way to
> go
> > about it...IMHO :-) No flame intended, just another opinion :-)
> >
> > Keith
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