PADA's letters

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Dear Prabhus,

 

For devotees who are sick of this kind of harassment, I suggest a more

aggressive approach.

 

It is easy to put a Pseudonym as a return address, but not easy to hide the

actual origin of the email. With the proliferation of free email, anyone can

open a new account in a couple of minutes. Conversely, you can shut down a

SPAMmer with just a couple of minutes work.

 

There are only a few who choose to attempt to pollute the general population

with blasphemous raves and not take responsibility by hiding in behind fake or

hijacked addresses. With swift action we can reduce their numbers. Of course,

the right to dissent is an important part of any society's well being.

However, irresponsible spamming with no regard for the victim is not.

 

1) Immediately forward the email to abuse , abuse (AT) AOL (DOT) COM or abuse@

whatever the domain name is. You will probably get a automatic response which

will include another address to complain to. Forward the email to that

address. The ISP *WILL* shut the spammer down. They have a very low tolerance

to SPAM. They can also see if someone is hijacking a legitimate account.

 

2) For the more technical, tell your email client to display the full header

of the email. Here's an example from a recent SPAM:

 

>From wlg (AT) cofs (DOT) com Fri Apr 23 04:33:38 1999

Received:from mail.cofs.com (www.cofs.com [209.4.12.28]) by

Pricilla.tricountyi.net (2.6 Build 1 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with SMTP id

EAA01973 for <jivago (AT) tricountyi (DOT) net>; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:33:37 -0400

wlg (AT) cofs (DOT) com Message-ID:9904230833.EAA01973 (AT) pricilla (DOT) tricountyi.net>

Received: from default [209.4.12.89] by mail.cofs.com (SMTPD32-4.06) id

 

Most of it is gibberish to me, but I can see that it is from MAIL.COFS.COM. A

quick visit to WWW.COFS.COM gave me the email address of the owner of the

MAIL.COFS.COM server, who responded quite quickly to my complaint. The header

can't be faked (that I know of). The same SPAMmer used a fake return address

last time and I busted him by looking at the header. This time COFS.COM should

shut him down.

 

3) Forward the email to your own ISP, ask them to find the source of the SPAM,

and ask them to inform the originating ISP to stop this account from sending

email to you.

 

Any of the above just take 2 or 3 minutes and can save not just you but 100's

of others much grief. If each and every devotee would react immediately to

each and every SPAM, the number of SPAM emails will reduce very quickly.

 

There are many VNN.ORGs, IRG whatever's, and PADA this and that's, where

people can legitimately express their dissent. Or as the case may be, destroy

their spiritual lives for many births. Let them do as the wish, but we do not

have to be helpless victims.

 

YS Jiva Goswami dasa

 

 

 

 

On 25 Apr 1999, Kadamba Kanana wrote:

 

> Dear devotees,

> Please accept my humble obeisances.

> All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

>

> I write this letter to Free Forum because it can concern all devotees.

>

> I regularly receive letters from PADA and every time when I received a

> letter I asked them not to send any information from PADA. But they keep

> sending the letters. Then I understood that they used different e-mail

> accounts to send letters and then I realized that they can used falsificated