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From: gfretwell@aol.com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Re: Eternal-Sept and "Excessive Nymshifting"
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:02:13 -0400
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 04:14:38 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

>On 8/4/2022 12:11 AM, gfretwell@aol.com wrote:
>
>> 
>> Tell Ray to pay more attention to the abuse email. We had a guy
>> spoofing names in another group I am in and saying reprehensible
>> things about other members and their families.  Ray didn't do anything
>> about it even after complaints.
>> 
>
>There are specific rules about what "spoofing" is.
>
>It is the email field which is protected. And not just any value is protected.
>Addresses in the .invalid domain are not protected.
>
>http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=terms
>
>    "The e-mail addresses given in "From:", "Reply-To:", and "Sender:" SHOULD be yours
>     (i.e. you should be entitled to use it) and SHOULD be valid (should not bounce
>     because of invalidity). Using addresses and namespace of other people without
>     their consent is prohibited."
>
>http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=abuse
>
>    "If a user is posting with your email address in their From: line we will terminate the account."
>
>    ****
>
>    "Q: Will we terminate an account for excessive morphing to evade kill files?
>
>     A: We will first warn them and if they do not stop, we will terminate the account.
>        Please note that morphing involves changing the email address. Simply changing the
>        from name is not morphing. You should be kill filing on email address, not name."
>
>*******
>
>If I send a USENET post with the addy set to <gfretwell@aol.com> ,
>then that is prohibited. and could lead to instant account termination
>of my account if I did it.
>
>If I posted the message from netfront, then it is the abuse address
>at netfront that enforces the netfront TOS, whatever that is. There
>are a number of servers that have no effective abuse address at
>all (Google Groups being a PRIME example).
>
>    Paul

It is a great policy if they actually did it. We reported this user
many times and it didn't stop. The guy is easy to spot in the headers
because he always used "Noisy patient spider" in the organization
field.