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Topic: Who is mastervirus3000@yahoo *DOT* com?
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Bart Smith
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 228
From: Hackney, London
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted September 16, 2008 03:06 AM
I'm sure he may well be reliable, that isn't the issue. Maybe if I ever met the guy in person I would find him enjoyable company, and go away with fond memories of our time together.
My point is that just because he is peddling films as opposed to Viagra, and isn't offering me a share of a $1,500,000 fortune that he has been fortunate enough to stumble across, doesn't mean that his messages aren't SPAM.
I'm not averse to getting the odd unsolicited email - you never know, there might be something of interest to me in it.
What I DO really dislike is that when I have specifically asked to be removed from the mailing list it hasn't happened.
Dan reckons that he send his emails from a library. I'm pretty certain that if my local library caught me sending unsolicited emails using their free internet access facilities I would be banned pretty damn quick, or at least get a sharp dressing-down from a fearsome looking matronly head-librarian.
EVEN WORSE... I just checked out the 2 recent emails again, and I can read the addresses of all the other 73 recipients. Now who, I wonder, is psychedelicoyster[AT]yahoo[DOT].com???
If I read the email headers I get the following report...
X-Spam-Report:
* 0.6 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name
* 1.2 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
* 1.8 DISGUISE_PORN_MUNDANE BODY: Attempts to disguise mundane words used
* in porn
* 2.5 SARE_OBFUPORNO BODY: masked spam word(s)
* 0.9 SOMETHING_FOR_ADULTS BODY: Possible porn - Adult Web Sites
* 0.3 MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email
* 0.1 HTML_TAG_EXIST_TBODY BODY: HTML has "tbody" tag
* 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
* 0.3 HTML_FONT_BIG BODY: HTML tag for a big font size
* 0.5 INTERRUPTUS RAW: Message looks to contain HTML-interrupted text
* 1.0 UPPERCASE_75_100 message body is 75-100% uppercase
* 0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_1 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
* -2.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
Frankly its a wonder that with an email address like the one he has and his lack of knowledge about how emails are flagged as being spam that anyone ever gets to read it.
Bart
[ September 16, 2008, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: Bart Smith ]
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Bart Smith
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 228
From: Hackney, London
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted September 16, 2008 12:40 PM
Hi Bill,
With all due respect I think you're missing the point. The emails that I receive from Fred all relate to 8mm films, so I don't think his address is being used to perpetrate 419 scams or anything similar.
I refer to it as Spam because it is:
A) Unsolicited.
B) I am not offered an option to opt-out.
C) If I ask to be removed, no action is taken.
My understanding is that this practice is illegal in the USA under the terms of the CAN-SPAM act. Here is a quote from the FTA's website (see www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.shtm)
I quote the following from that page: quote:
It requires that your email give recipients an opt-out method. You must provide a return email address or another Internet-based response mechanism that allows a recipient to ask you not to send future email messages to that email address, and you must honor the requests. You may create a "menu" of choices to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to end any commercial messages from the sender.
Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your commercial email. When you receive an opt-out request, the law gives you 10 business days to stop sending email to the requestor's email address. You cannot help another entity send email to that address, or have another entity send email on your behalf to that address. Finally, it's illegal for you to sell or transfer the email addresses of people who choose not to receive your email, even in the form of a mailing list, unless you transfer the addresses so another entity can comply with the law.
Each violation of the above provisions is subject to fines of up to $11,000. Deceptive commercial email also is subject to laws banning false or misleading advertising.
So my suggestion would be that someone who knows Fred contacts him and reminds him of his obligations under Federal Law, and of the potential penalties that he might face.
Like I say, I'm sure he's a great guy etc.
As for the excellent work that Kevin and Doug do moderating the board and removing valid email links, I'm sure that most experienced users of online forums know better than to post genuine addresses. I certainly don't, and as far as I am aware no-one other than myself edited any of my posts.
The problem with the software that this forum runs on is that if you click a members profile and they have entered an email address in there it is visible. I'm pretty sure that is the method that Fred used to harvest the email address of forum members. On most other forums you can only contact other members using PMs, so that you never get to see their actual email address.
Bart
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 16, 2008 01:23 PM
Yeah, Fred's no spammer, no doubt, he got everybodys address from some kind of server. Being that it takes a good week for him to get back to anybody, I beleive that he only gets to the library once a week. And he is reliable.
For trivia buffs, he is an actor (past tense) and played a major character in the TV series "The Fugitive".
Hah! I'll let you stew in your juices as to who it was, (no, it's obviously NOT Patrick Magohan)
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 17, 2008 12:50 PM
I understand that Bart, that concerns me too.
The One armed man is right! On many of his earlier e-mails, he had stated his name as "Bill Risch" (or however it's spelled, it was the same, except without the "a" in the last name.)
I have wondered, perhaps "Fred" is his real name and "Bill" was his stage name. He also actd in some other things. I don't see any reason why he would just make up playing a character that he wasn't.
I can reitereate that his prices, though a little high at times, are worth the prints, (but try to talk him down if you can.)
By the way, for those intrested, he has a pint of "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" a somewhat rare optical sound print, for (I think) 65.00 or 75.00 dollars. I have this film and the sharpness is truly stunning AND the sound is great. ovely color. By the way, it also had Wilford Brimley (Quaker Oats ads) and the woman who would play "Captian Janeway" on the Star Trek Series "Voyager", one of those rare features she did before Star Trek Voyager.
There's others I'd like to buy from him, but baby costs have kind of put a "kibosh" on major payments for awhile.
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