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[Remops] Flooding of my abuse address 

Len Sassaman rabbi@abditum.com 
Mon May 12 14:18:02 2003 

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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:

> At 04:10 PM 04/21/2003 +0000, Frog-Admin wrote:
> >Michael Gardner <mgg@prairienet.org> is *really* the guy who flooded my
> >abuse address, harassed my upstream and half a dozen other abuse addresses
> >at random.
> >(Check the headers: actually he is also Michael Gardner <mgg@uiuc.edu>
> >Because he is explicitly asking my upstreams to disconnect ME because he
> >does not like some of the posts remailed by Frog, this is a clear case of
> >ATTACK against a remailer by some netcop.
>
> If he's really at UIUC.EDU, universities are sometimes quite cooperative
> about squishing abusers.
> Sometimes this is the kind of censorship that we're trying to route around,
> but sometimes it's clearly abuse (as in this case.)

It is unfortunate that Frog Admin chose to vindicate this abuser by using
the Frog Remailer to harass him. By Frog's actions (placing mgg@uiuc.edu
in his remailer contact headers for all messages posted by Frog) he has
given the anti-remailer netcop kooks more justification for their
position.

Appealing to UIUC.EDU for help in squashing his abuse, or simply ignoring
him and compensating for his attacks would have been an appropriate
reaction. It does none of us any good for a remop to go out of his way to
make enemies of Universities.