One source of 9/11spam and what to do about it

Mark this fact--I have never published any email address online in connection to 911truth. Not even the new one. It does not come up in Google search.


See? Never published, never crawled. So how the fuck did these people get it?





The only people I know who have it are:

1-Friends in 911truth--all of whom know better than to sign me up for list without my knowledge.

2-WQ2RX stalkers--among them the charming lass Jennifer Wynhausen, who uses various email addresses for harassment.

3-From an email sent to various activists including three Larouchites(Webster Tarpley, Bruce Marshall and Craig Hill, assisted byJim Fetzer, Kevin Barrett) --as a result of good faith efforts to try to resolve the Kennebunkport bollox.


Removing the first group from the list of suspects--friends and associates in 911truth--I must come to the conclusion Griffin and Elinoff have email lists culled from internet stalkers and Larouchite disruptors in 911 truth.

Maybe Elinoff and Griffin don't know that's where the lists came from, but that's not my problem. No, I'm not going to email them to ask to be taken off the list--that will just give them more information they don't have a right to.

We all know from the post Kennebunkport online harassment campaign that information from private lists was released about people without their consent. This habit may have finally backfired in real life.But let's see what some websites say about private mailing lists and what the owners of those lists are allowed to do with the information:

http://www.ipsh.net/website/liability.html

The content of messages sent to addresses from a third party list must be consistent with the disclosure made to the recipients upon initial provision of the email address or phone number. As a list owner, you are fully responsible for any third party's adherence to our policies for lists which you obtain and use in our system. Any violation of our policies by third parties will be seen as violations by you, and will subject your account to disciplinary action, termination, and fees accordingly.

http://www.shamash.org/help/aup.shtml

Any distribution of e-mail addresses of Shamash mailing list subscribers, list owners, or account holders, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, is prohibited.

http://drupal.meetup.com/terms/

4.4 Restriction on Use of Your Information. Except as otherwise provided in our privacy policy, we will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose any of your Personally Identifiable Information (as defined in our privacy policy) about you (including your email address) to any third party.

But what about private Yahoo! lists?

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

"Publicly accessible" areas of the Yahoo! Services are those areas of the Yahoo! network of properties that are intended by Yahoo! to be available to the general public. By way of example, publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services would include Yahoo! Message Boards and portions of Yahoo! Groups and Flickr that are open to both members and visitors. However, publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services would not include portions of Yahoo! Groups that are limited to members, Yahoo! services intended for private communication such as Yahoo! Mail or Yahoo! Messenger, or areas off of the Yahoo! network of properties such as portions of World Wide Web sites that are accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served by Yahoo!.

And particularly for those who think Yahoo! groups are a free for all--not so much:

http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines.html

You cannot re-post or re-transmit content that belongs to another user without that user's permission. A Groups owner or moderator (or any other user) cannot re-post or re-transmit Groups content to any other site unless the person has the explicit permission of every group member whose content is being re-posted or re-transmitted.

Hmm--so, at casual glance, most sites pretty much agree passing out people's email addresses --among other things--without consent, is not okay. Using those addresses to "volunteer" them for newletters they don't know about is in fact the definition of SPAM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

Which can be legal provided:

Spam is legally permissible according to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 provided it follows certain criteria: a truthful subject line, no false information in the technical headers or sender address, and other minor requirements. If the spam fails to comply with any of these requirements it is illegal. Aggravated or accelerated penalties apply if the spammer harvested the email addresses using methods described earlier.

Those methods are:

Spammers collect e-mail addresses from chatrooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, and viruses which harvest users' address books, and are sold to other spammers.

But lets be real--neither Elinoff or Griffin used viruses to get my email--they got it from the same sacks of shite making a career out of harassing 911activists and survivors. And they may have violated their Internet providers terms of use:

Sending spam violates the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of almost all Internet Service Providers.

Hope you're reading Mr. Griffin and Mr. Elinoff. However you got my email, I can guarantee it came from a WQ2RX stalker list without my consent. And was passed around--with many others no doubt-- to spread general annoyance. No, it did not come from a Loose Change mailing list(as someone suggested)--because I've never been on that list. And even if it had, the proper way to do these things is to send out ONE announcement introducing yourself and INVITING people to sign up. Not taking a list of email addresses and running with it. I'd like to assume this is all just an honest cockup. But the history of email harassment and spam in 911truth idicates otherwise.

The first I ever heard about Core of Corruption:

Core of Corruption

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:50 AM
From:"CoreOfCorruption@gmail.com
"col_jennysparks@xxxx

Welcome.

This is an automatic response to a subscription request started at Core of Corruption.

Thanks for subscribing.

This project that has been exclusively worked on for over 5 years will involve the release of 5 films, all of which will detail a complete and comprehensive case of corruption and conspiracy with video news clips. Most of these clips are not available on the internet and have not been seen since they aired.

The series is going to cover a complete and comprehensive case about the biggest conspiracy in the world and the evidence that proves it exists. It connects Kennedy, Iran Contra, Watergate, Drug Running, 9/11 and even the current economic crisis we’re in today with all the same figures and a central theme of how they did it will also be shown. Never before seen video evidence and news clips have been surfaced for this groundbreaking event.

http://www.CoreOfCorruption.com

Tell everyone about this. email, blog, embed and anything you see fit. Contact everyone about this and do what you can to help make this big.

And another on the 11th of February:



Other people appeared to have complained. At the bottom of a later email:

If you feel you've received this email in error of to unsubscribe to this newsletter, go to http://coreofcorruption.com/index.php, enter your email address in the "email" box, check the "Unsubscribe" box, and click Submit.

Here's the problem: according to CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 :

Unsubscribe compliance

• A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.

• Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 days.
• Opt-out lists also known as suppression lists are only used for compliance purposes.

A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is a link in the email you click to unsubscribe(anyone part of a Yahoo! group can see these at the bottom of messages), not an invitation to visit a dodgy site and its possible malware. In my case this person obtained the email under questionable circumstances--it'll be a cold day in hell before I visit their site without a proxy. If anyone is in a similar situation, and there is no link to unsubscribe--just block the sods. "In error" my arse.

You can also report them to http://www.usdoj.gov/spam.htm .

May not do more than make you feel better, but there will be a record if they stir up more trouble. Oh--and their internet service providers. In my case that is, respectively:

Elinoff
Info@CoreOfCorruption.com
CoreOfCorruption@xxx:

1-COSENTRY.NET, LLC

2- http://www.qwest.com/corporate/customerService/contactus/

Griffin
davraygrif@xxxx:

http://ww2.cox.com/aboutus/contact-us.cox


Honestly, the amount of spam from these lads has been relatively tame. But that has not always been the case with 9/11 spam and God knows when and if someone wants to turn the clock back. What makes this concerning is the information used to subscribe me without consent is directly traced to the WQ2RX stalking shite. It comes from no other source. And the question is how will these email addresses--already obtained without consent--be used in the future? Will they pop up in more Internet stalkers masterpeices with eveyone baffled as to "how that happened"? Not if I can help it.

They all need to stop.

Stop sharing people's email without consent.
Stop sending unsolicited emails.
Stop subscribing people without their knowledge.

Don't be clever. Don't see what angel can be worked. Don't spin.

Just. Stop.




If anyone fancies a chat with either Mr. Griffin or Mr. Elinoff about their business practices, hoping to "reach them", good luck with that.