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From: max@eros.uucp (Max Hauser)
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Subject: Re: INDISCRIMINANT POSTING BY JJ@CUP.PORTAL.COM
Keywords: HELP ME!!
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Date: 25 May 88 16:24:24 GMT
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In article <032407.2147405664@cc.usu.edu> SL747@usu.bitnet writes:

|        I am not really sure who this should be sent to or what can be done,
| but it seems that this JJ is sending this to every newsgroup that exists
| on this network.  From what I can see he is just going down every newsgroup
| name and send to that group.  So far today, I have counted at least 22
| postings.  ...

Well, this person is transmitting a plea throughout at least the United
States for mailed money and is stipulating explicit purposes to which it
would be put.  Therefore, in contrast to many Usenet gambits that are 
merely obnoxious, JJ's would seem to fall within the purview of the US 
fraud-by-wire and other federal statutes, and therefore eligible for the 
attention of the US Department of Justice, including the FBI.  Any eager
young D-o-J attorneys out there who might want to take it and run with it?

On the other hand, for all anyone has said on the net, JJ may be perfectly
honorable about the use of the money, in which case the postings, spread
indiscriminately across utterly inappropriate newsgroups and not even
all cross-posted (as though making it hard for a reader to skip them all
at one stroke would somehow increase the force of the appeal), are
merely obnoxious. Surely the administration or ownership at cup.portal.com
is accountable for this, and may even be eager to stop the flood. Certainly,
further outrages of this kind would not bode well for a site's connectivity.