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Reply-to: jfdill@jfdill.suite.net (Jonathan F. Dill)
From: jfdill@jfdill.suite.net (Jonathan F. Dill)
Subject: Entry to the Anti-Spam Guestbook

You have a new entry in your guestbook:

# Entered from mystery.carb.nist.gov (129.6.113.182) with HTTP/1.0.
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Just checked out your page on BENCHMARK--Any more updates?  I think this bastard is
getting lazy--I have a dialup IP that was apparently used to connect directly to a
promiscuous relay:  p24.amax6.dialup.atl1.flash.net (209.30.102.24)  I can get access 
to the promiscuous relay to see what other info I can dredge up.  I plan to contact 
flash.net but anticipate a lame response.  I think I'll keep an eye on flash.net--
maybe I'll ban a subset of those addresses if I find a pattern.

BTW for the benefit of all reading your guestbook:  Beware of computer supply scams (of 
which I would be shocked to find out that BENCHMARK is not)!  Some high-energy dweeb 
will call saying that he/she is sending you some promotional item(s) (such as a 
baseball cap) and/or "samples" of the product such as toner cartridges or cleaning 
supplies, and he/she "just need to confirm your shipping address."  Oh really, so these 
are FREE samples then?  Of course not!  I had one scam that wanted to send me a FULL 
CASE of $65 toner cartridges at a cost of $90 each (they were supposed to "last longer" 
and "print darker and sharper") not to mention that they were probably remanufactured 
and worth about $35.  I tell them not to send me anything, and that if they do, I will 
consider it a "gift" as is my legal right, because I did not order it--check out the FTC 
web pages on office supply scams at the URL below.  If necessary, a letter from your 
State Attorney General's Office should brighten!
 their day (easy to get if you work for the state, as I do).

If you tell him/her that you're not interested, he/she may insist, "Well, then tell me 
who's in charge of making the decisions for buying X?"  My (cleaned up) answer, "I'm in 
charge of making the decisions about buying X and I don't have time for this <click>!"  
Don't give him/her any other names, because then he/she will call those people and try 
the same, or worse, tell them that you aren't doing your job because you're wasting your 
company's money by not trying out their product.  This is partly based on personal 
experience with these slugs, and partly based on the experiences of other people I know 
who have dealt with them.

Check out FTC's informative web page on Office Supply Scams
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/supplies.htm

--jonathan
Jonathan F. Dill <jfdill@jfdill.suite.net>
 - Sunday, September 26, 1999 at 21:37:49 (PDT)
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