Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
From: hoey@pooh.tec.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1996/10/18
Subject: Re: Email spam from Infoseek

n...@cs.umd.edu (Dana S. Nau) writes:

> To the postmaster at Infoseek:
> One of your users is sending email spam.  I'm attaching a copy of the
> offending message.  Please take appropriate disciplinary action.  I'm
> cc'ing this message to news.admin.net-abuse.misc

I suspect it is Steve Kirsch, the president of Infoseek.  He sent me
an unsolicited "free offer" in August, 1994, saying I was recommended
by a "current user" who of course could not be identified.  He
included a smarmy "We hate junk mail too, so if you don't want any
more don't send us e-mail" postscript.

As far as I am concerned, Infoseek is one of the original rogue sites,
responsible for bringing the plague of unsolicited junk mail on all
Internet users.  If you find anyone who might be willing to act on
complaints, please let me know.

Dan Hoey                                Infoseek delenda est.
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil