[clug] iinet (was webone sells out to iinet)

[Jepri]

Except that it did - or at least relayed spam for them for years.  When 
I had Telstra ADSL back in 2000, I never used their jepri at telstra.com.
au address for anything, but suddenly I started receiving a lot of 
'high quality' spam.

Since my user name is odd enough that it is hard to guess, I'm pretty 
sure they were either selling addresses or generating the spam 
themselves.  It's a pretty small difference in any case.


On 2003.06.25 20:29, Kim Holburn wrote:
> From:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/0337255
> Telstra Denies Selling BigPond Customers' Data
> 
> 
> At 5:55 PM +1000 2003/06/25, leonbrooks (8043) wrote:
> >I learned a lot from customer experiences (Score:3, Informative)
> >by leonbrooks (8043) <sd at leon.brooks.fdns.net >
>           on 17:55  25th June, 2003 ( #6292168 )
> >(http://plug.linux.org.au/~leonb/ )
> >
> >iiNet [ii.net] used to be great, then the other Michael left, they
> went on a buying spree (Wantree, Omen, Networx, dozens of other
> smallish ISPs) and their tech support fell in a hole (due, I suspect
> to the high turnover rate of competent technicians, he says, waving to
> Brett [nuance.net.au], a prime example).
> >...snip...
> 
> --
> --
> Kim Holburn
> Network Consultant - Telecommunications Engineering
> Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
> Australian National University - Ph: +61 2 61258620 M: +61 0417820641
> Email: kim.holburn at anu.edu.au  - PGP Public Key on request
> 
> Life is complex - It has real and imaginary parts.
>      Andrea Leistra (rec.arts.sf.written.Robert-jordan)
> 
>