From: Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:00:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Anguilla - commercial and mailbombing policies
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
> 
> A while back, when Vince first started advertizing his site, I asked him
>a few hypothetical questions, and he said roughly this: If client X posts
>something to Usenet from Vince's site, and if Y dislikes X's article so
>much that he mailbombs X, then Vince would pull X's plug. (I have the
>exact quote saved.) I lost interest right then. I'm not surprised that
>Vince acted dishonorably by pulling a client's plug with no warning for a
>very flimsy reason. 

That question was about commercial ads, and I said "As long as I am not
mailbombed I don't care about how you post.".  I did *not* say I would
pull the plug (full exchange below).  From your other questions it looked
like there was no chance of you being a customer so I did not fully
explain. 

I have been mailbombed around a dozen times in the last year and never cut
anyone off.  Details below (I too have the exact quote)... 

Dimitri:
> e) to spam usenet with commercial ads.

Vince:
>e) I think you would have to spam more than 100 groups to get my
>system mail bombed.  As long as I am not mailbombed I don't
>care about how you post.

First, yes, that 100 groups is off the wall.

What I meant was you can send out commercial ads and I don't care at all. 
If you get mailbombed, that is another issue.  

If mailbombed then it goes toward your traffic.  You get 100 MB/month of
traffic with a domain name, and if you go over that amount of traffic the
cost is $1/MB.  If you have prepaid by check, and I don't know who you
are, and your account goes below $0, I would cut you off till more money
came in. 

Sorry for not explaining that.

 --  Vince

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