From: IN%"stewarts@ix.netcom.com" 24-NOV-1996 21:31:32.43
To: IN%"jkroeger@squirrel.owl.de" "Johannes Kroeger"
CC: IN%"neil@ajax.astra.co.uk" "Neil", IN%"remailer-operators@c2.net"
Subj: RE: Bulk emailing quote request (fwd)
If Ajax's customer wants to be anonymous, they either need to forge headers
or get someone to send the mail for them. Ajax can do the latter themselves
(e.g. From: massmail@ajax.com
Subject: Great New Product/Service/Religion/Drug/Racket
Contact us by phone for further information about Great Stuff!
Call the Queen and ask her not to ban it!!)
The only reasons Ajax would need to remove their name are
1) Ajax is really the customer
2) Ajax doesn't want to be legally forced to identify the name
3) Ajax knows it's SPAM and doesn't want people to be able to block it.
4) Ajax wants to direct the headers straight to the customer so
Ajax doesn't get flamed to death in response.
If it's case 1), fine, create a mailbox at ajax.com for the "customer".
If it's case 2), they shouldn't be giving out phone or paper-mail
contact addresses.
If it's case 4), they can either set up their headers correctly,
or create a cutout mailbox, print any incoming mail,
and forward it by paper.
At 04:02 PM 11/21/96 -0000, Johannes Kroeger wrote:
>I just found the following offer in my junk mailbox.
>Does anyone know more about Ajax Communications and their
>"respectable client" and what's the best reaction to this crap?
.....
>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>> I work for a company called Ajax Communications and we have a respectable=
>> client who needs to do a mass e-mail shot. The e-mail which needs to go =
>> out would need to be anonymous.
>> Our client would need the e-mail shot carried out in 2 phases:
>>
>> 1. 10,000 shots to go to UK addresses as soon as possible.
>> 2. After a response from phase 1 is known, a further 990,000 shots to go =
>> to UK addresses.
....
>> Tel. +44 1443 223835 and ask to speak to myself or Doug Brown.
...
>> Neil Ross
>> Technical Manager.
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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