shipwreck > writes:

>From: shipwreck >
>Newsgroups: rec.food.baking
>Subject: Moterator
>Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:37:16 GMT
>
>I'm being fined by my host site for a complaint against me from a
>memeber of this group. It was one post, after participating here for
>over a year, and now I've got the internet police after me.

If Roadrunner (rr.com) has done anything to enforce its Acceptable Use
Policy, it comes as a great surprise to many of us.

Back in early March, I received a spam which was "phishing" for
financial passwords and information by sending the naive recipient
to a very sophisticated but bogus web page which looked like a
genuine PayPal site. It actually collected information and forwarded
it to an address on a server in China. The bogus page was hosted on
an IP address assigned to a Roadrunner cable modem.

I spent quite a bit of time on the Roadrunner web site to see how to
notify Roadrunner of this criminal activity. I discovered that they
had designed their email support to require one to enter a Roadrunner
username and password to communicate with them. There were no
telephone numbers posted. And, finally, I found that Acceptable Use
Policy complaints should be emailed to "

I sent a detailed explanation. And, having spent well over an hour of
my time researching and writing this up, I was amazed to find that
my email bounced back at me saying that " is not
a working address.

If Roadrunner can't seem to follow up on actual criminal activity on
it's network, it's unbelievable that Roadrunning is spending time
dealing with Usenet violations of netiquette.

Roadrunner belongs to Time Warner.

Cheers,
The Old Bear