Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1996/01/07
Subject: Re: U.C.E.: Introducing RIP-2 multimedia graphics for the Internet!

On New Years Eve, Telegrafix sent an ad to the cellular-automata
mailing list/newsgroup, for which they "apologized" on Tuesday, 2 Jan.
Last Thursday, Pat Clawson <patclaw...@delphi.com> copied the apology
to news.admin.net-abuse.misc:

>   We have received complaints that members of this mailing list
> received unsolicited mail from TeleGrafix Communications over the
> holiday weekend.
>   Please accept our apologies for any inconvienience this may have
> caused you.  Clearly, there has been an error here.  It is not our
> company's policy to spam academic mailing lists.
>   How this occurred is unknown to us. We can only speculate it was
> due to incorrect e-mail information from a customer inquiry or
> customer reponse card that was entered into our database....

etc.

But yesterday, they sent another copy of the original ad (slightly
edited), this time to the cube-lovers mailing list, a list that has
everything to do with Rubik's cube and nothing to do with whatever
product they are flogging.  It seems their "policy" is to send e-mail
spam at anything that moves, and feign remorse later.

I advise you to ignore any further disingenuous "apologies" from these
nuisance-mongers, and of course to refrain from doing anything to
advance their business.

Dan Hoey                 posted to news.admin.net-abuse.misc.
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil    e-mailed to clawson, ca@think,
cube-lovers-request.