Leythos wrote: [snip]
I've seen places like AOL and Road Runner and SBC and even
Earthlink yank accounts for it, even seen Yahoo pull hosted pages
and accounts for it. If you send them one article showing it,
showing the lack of respect as posted by the offender, they get
one warning and then they yank the accounts.
And how do you know they only give one warning?
I've seen it happen to people that have been reported - not myself
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And you knew how many times they were reported and warned
previously, or are you just assuming?
The were told by the ISP and related the story back to me about what
happened and all the info. Even had official form letters from their
ISP about it.
I've also seen Yahoo yank people after one complaint where the host a
personal page with sales content - offering a security book by some
wacko - and with one complaint the site was down in less than 1 hour.
There are some ISP's that don't care, but I suspect that the big names
do.
I had a single person complain about me once, and RR sent me a nasty
form letter - called them up, got a tech, sent them the entire thread
(as I keep all threads I post in for at least 1 year) and they wiped
my record of the complaint and said they were putting the complainer
in a ignore list