[Milsurplus] Re: GB> Anyone else having trouble with Milsurplus?

[Tom Norris]

The $50 is for your ISP, you can unlock your individual email by  
verifying that a human is sending from your IP address.  It explains  
how to do so on their web page.  The folks at qth.net can do so as  
well.  I emailed the list owner on the R-390 list and he was able get  
in touch with (murmer, I forgot) to fix it - and by doing so, it put  
me on the white list for all of the qth.net domain.

Tom

On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Ben Dover wrote:

> Howdy, Bill.
>
> Thanks for the explaination. I've never run into this online before
> and it teed me off no end. The odd thing is that I've only been a
> member of MilSurplus about a month (joined after the alleged spamming
> incident happened), and until now I haven't posted much. This is the
> first time these "sorbs" clowns got into the act.
>
> They're very specific about the extortion; they want FIFTY BUCKS to
> unlock your account or ISP, sent to a "charitable" cause. THAT part
> of thier website is interesting.
>
> Currently, the money goes to the legal defense fund of some guy who
> is in jail, charged with hacking.
>
> It appears that in the past it went to some hospital, but those folks
> have begun refusing the money; sorbs claims that they've been
> threatened with violence (Hmmm... I wonder why THAT is???).
>
> This whole thing smells like the Mafia on Microprocessors, extracting
> a "tax" from the Internet.
>
> I think the thing that irritates me the most is that my traffic, in
> the US, is being highjacked by a bunch of clowns in Australia.
>
>
> 73's,
>
> Tom, W9LBB
>