Email has returned to the building.

[reddragdiva]

fun[AT]thingy.apana.org.au is fit and working again, and remains the preferred email address for general use.

250 new messages, about half of which are spam. So being on the CAUBE-AU committee does not necessarily give one the mad l33t p0w3rs one might hope for.

Although it does have its high points. Here is the tale from late February of what I did on my Perth holiday, adapted from the original Usenet post.

Margarets Forest Pty Ltd is the name of the Perth company running a spamhaus under an astounding variety of names. They're also whackamoles from Hell. So Troy Rollo decided to serve a civil statement of claim on them for Aus$500 plus serving expenses, as the first step in a thorough legal LARTing (which is slowly progressing, as these things do).

SCENE: Thursday 21st February 2002, 4:55pm; Level 7, 231 Adelaide Terrace, Perth.

When you come out of the lift on level 7, you're right at the receptionist's desk for all the suites on the floor.

Smiling receptionist: "Hello!"
"Hi!" (friendly smile) "Is Sally Kelly in?"
"Yes, just a minute ... Who shall I say is here?"
"I'm David ... It's personal." (concerned expression)
"Okay." (ring ring) "Sally? David's here to see you. ... She'll be right out."
Sally walks out. "Hello ... er, do I know you?"
"I'm David Gerard." (I hand her the Statement of Claim.) "I'm serving you this legal process."
(upset) "What is this?"
"A statement of claim against Margarets Forest Pty Ltd. I suggest you call your lawyer. Have a nice day!"

Sally walks off, nice document in hand. I depart, with a biiig smile on my face and doing an occasional jump in the air as I walk down the street.

That was fun. Pity I won't be in Perth any time soon to do any more. But everyone I've told about it went "Really!", and I drank off this for at least the next month. It also impresses the chyx. So there should be a suitable supply of spammer servers to pay them more happy visits as needed.

If you are an Australian voter, go to http://www.caube.org.au/ and join. Joining is free; the benefit of it is that we can say to politicians "We have x signed-up members, and x of those are in YOUR electorate" when we're doing lobbying.

We are also considering selling the opportunity of serving processes on spammers. The LART-A-Spammer Package Tour! How to make a bundle on the Interweb Sooperhighway, indeed.

Also see The 17th century king who's fighting e-mail pornography, from the Sydney Morning Herald.

And every Australian reading this must go and join CAUBE-AU now. Dammit.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

That's a really cool way of serving a writ on someone. ;-)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*laugh*
I'm so impressed by your legal-notice-servingness.

(actually, I was impressed that the first time I met you, you trusted me to walk away with your cashcard and PIN and not make a break for the border!)

[reddragdiva]

That's because I knew I could trust in your sweet smile and obviously noble personality, and I wasn't distracted by your cleavage at all. Honestly.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Can't I have a sweet and noble cleavage as well?

[reddragdiva]

Of course! Presented sweetly with nobility indeed!

(Goth cleavage is actually all about the collarbones - think about it and you'll see what I mean. But there sure is something wonderful about breasts themselves, too. Full of sweet nobility!

[diffrentcolours]

*worship worship*

[reddragdiva]

I wonder if the drinks magic from it will still work.

By crikey, people hate spammers. "What you have to understand is that before the Internet, the only people who could piss off millions in a single moment were Presidents, and they have the Secret Service to protect them."

[redcountess]

what, Diva's l33t serving skillz or the nobility of cleavage?

;-)

[reddragdiva]

"Yes."

[redcountess]

heh. Darn LJ threading, I was actually replying to Perf's comment :-)

[reddragdiva]

Hey, Perf has as excellent a grasp of the nobility of cleavage as you or I.

[aquitaine.livejournal.com]

From what I remember from when you were here, you are always distracted by cleavage *grin*. But yes goth cleavage does tend to be nice. Theresa here by the way. From blue velvet. Hope UK is going well. lilith tells me it is though. I have journal now...come visit :)

[reddragdiva]

Added :-) So how you been, sweetie?

[aquitaine.livejournal.com]

I'm good. Did you get my email I sent about a week ago? Or did it get caught up in the email limbo land?

[reddragdiva]

Got it, but I don't have access to that mailbox at present! Please to resend to poundingbat[AT]yahoo.com ...

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned before that I love that story? Warms the whatsis, it does...

[seedy-girl.livejournal.com]

You're about an hour too late. The dear boy forwarded the July newsletter through to me, pointing out the call for volunteer lawyers to form a legal committee. I've joined and have offered to volunteer. And I can do more than just process-serving (you have a twisted idea of fun m'dear).

[reddragdiva]

(doe-eyed) Gee you're cool!

Hopefully the slow-moving volunteer legal committee will get back to you in semi-reasonable order ...

Process serving is a simple activity anyone can do. I think the really fun bit is the look on their faces.