Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: [OT] Entering OIK-FREE period!

A few days ago, someone was looking for recipes to get rid of oiks;
there being only one oik on this ng, no more details are necessary. right?
My forecast was that nobody would have to do anything except waiting for
the oik's provider to take some actions. Well, it happened.  Apparently, the 
oik received a belated reprimand from the ISP.  After screaming the usual 
blue murder,  he declared himself a martyr, made a public announce 
stating that he was  going to leave Usenet _forever_ because he was the only 
sentient form of life left on earth, and disappeared with a bang and some smoke.
Yes, exactly as he did the last  time he saw his account sawed off.
The news I am reporting here appeared yesterday on another ng (it.cultura.libri)
where, as a matter of fact, there are a few people that think of him as a great 
example of mental openness and feel the world would be darker without him.
(I guess that can probably be explained as a normal statistical phenomenon)
I just wanted it to be known that this unnatural silence from the oik (what? 2 days 
in a row without the same rants?) is not because he got sick or may be he fell into 
a canal in Venice. Your news server is working fine, too.
Simply, he just got busted by yet another ISP. As usual.
So, I here declare the place oik-free until further notice; enjoy it while you can.
+--
I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

 So, I here declare the place oik-free until further notice; enjoy it while you can.
Just when I was checking into to see what silliness he might be up to.
Guess I'll try back in a month or two.
C

 Yes, exactly as he did the last  time he saw his account sawed off.
"..sawn off" may be better. :-)
And there I was thinking my killfile was finally working.
Cheers,
Loki
-- 
  Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare

oik received a belated reprimand from the ISP.  
His
lifespan seems to get shorter and, hopefully, the intervals until his
resurrection longer.
---
Xakero
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Inviato via 
http://usenet.iol.it
 

resurrection longer.
I am absolutely amazed by how things are done over there.  Here, it would take
a lot to kick someone out.  I tried calling aol so that they would take action
against a person who was e-stalking me and writing very offensive posts
directed to me.  I made numerous calls and sent various emails, but  got no
reaction from them.  And this went on for months.  I guess that's what makes
America so great!  This is a country where the rights of each individual are
carried to an extreme  without any concern for the people affected.  It doesn't
matter if these rights are detrimental to the whole community as long as the
rights of the individual in question are respected.  Did you hear about the
burglar who sued the family he tried to burglarize because on their roof they
had a glass area which caused him to fall and injure himself?  I am glad things
are different over there.
Bye
arianna

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It needs civic-minded citizens to keep this world
a good world (I am not normally philosophical!)
I commend you on the
efforts you have made.
Sometimes, spammers and other oiks fake an email
address. Do you know how to look at the full header of an incoming email? I
see you use AOL, and I am not familiar with that email program and
therefore cannot guide you through the steps.
At any rate, lesson number
one is: Never call. Always write, even if only by email.
In the full
header of the incoming email, take the last quoted “received from” IP
address, find out the email address of the administrator or coordinator of
the respective domain (using, for example, 
http://combat.uxn.com
), send
him/her the full header and complete text of the offending email, and
request this administrator to stop these offensive mails.
Example of a
full header:
QUOTE
From diplomas@advanced_careers Mon, 12 Nov 2001
06:21:58 -0800
Received: from [194.133.130.253] by 
hotmail.com
 (3.2) with
ESMTP id MHotMailBDB9122700B140043755C28582FD0FD9265; Mon, 12 Nov 2001
06:19:54 -0800
Message-ID: <OK6G5iAnRKQO_uv-dY@ua5qw01oibiZPXg>
From:
diplomas@advanced_careers <diplomas@advanced_careers>
Bcc:
To:xak...@hotmail.com
To:xak...@hotmail.com
To:xak...@hotmail.com
To:xake...@hotmail.com
To:xak...@hotmail.com
Subject: Get your
Bachelors, Masters or PhD right now.
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:18:53 -0400
(EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
UNQUOTE
In the above example of a spam,
there is only one "received from" but often there are several. Always take
the last one, which is really the first one to receive the mail, the one
closest to the "From:" line.
With the above example,
http://combat.uxn.com
 tells me that for the IP number 194.133.130.253 the
address to which to report an abuse is 
ab...@opentransit.net
, and to this
address I would write politely every time I got another abusive email from
the stalker. 
There are simpler ways to exterminate spammers
(
http://spamcop.net/
), but your problem being a stalker an individual
approach to the offending emailer’s Internet Service Provider seems
advisable.
Good luck!
---
Xakero
PS. I diapprove of spammers, and
even more of vile stalkers of ladies of the Illuminated Realm.
PPS.
Peltio, I know you are the expert oik exterminator, and I do not mean to
usurp your highly qualified function but couldn't help myself but rush to
the aid of a lady in distress.
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affected. 
Well, one could also observe that that is probably why the percentage of deranged 
people  walking and breeding freely all over the US is so high.
Sure it is hard to draw a line for some things. Often, too much freedom can
be as bad as too many restrictions. I would say that the way things are in America
is appropriate for a society that unfortunately does not exist yet. Extremes, one way
or the other, are never good. Anyway, I would subscribe for the current optimistic 
approach any time.
Speaking of too many vs too little rules, I remember an article I read long time ago.
An investigation was conducted on the aspects of road traffic in the north and south of
Italy. For those who don't know, there is a generally increasing tendency to ignore traffic 
rules as you proceed from north to south.
It turned out  that the average % of road accidents was just about the same between
north and south, in spite of the fact that in some places things like traffic lights, stop signs 
and one-way streets are openly and utterly ignored by drivers. So it appears that, at least
 in that case, following the rules or  ignoring them completely makes no difference at all 
(provided that  _everybody_ agrees on ignoring the rules, otherwise it would be a carnage).
I have always found that story extremely striking.
If you think of it, you might even wonder if that brief moment of savage satisfaction
you can get by blasting past a red light may have some therapeutic aspects not 
unlike like those created by the relieving presence of a pet.
Now, let me go check again those papers about which part of Italy my ancestors
were from...
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well in exposing himself as a
terminal asshole 
In my humble opinion, HE spread the cloth over the
floor, you laid a carpet over the table. 
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--
Good Lord; welcome back Angelini! 
End OIK FREE period....(what was it, three days?)
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I know you can't speak
But I know you can lie. That's why I don't
believe a word of all you say.
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address. Do you know how to look at the full header of an incoming email? I
First of all, I want to thank you for your input and suggestions.  I will have
to spend some time studying your post!
Mail from others aol members does not have headers or at least I don't see
them.  I see headers only if the mail comes from an "outsider".  I finally got
rid of her (yes, it was a woman...an eighty year old Italian teacher!) but it
wasn't because of anything that aol  did.  It was probably because she got
tired and moved on.  
Thanks again.  I appreciate your help.
bye
Arianna