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Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- That annoying magazine ad Little Pink Linctus Houses CRD: September Cones Correction Naff/You & Oblivion Re: That annoying magazine ad spamfilter test Re: ISB A last, and not my haircut ------------------------------ From: "Brian Huddell" Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:25:48 +0000 Subject: That annoying magazine ad Hopefully the following excerpt from a message posted to another list will save people some trouble in figuring out what to do about this latest assault from the realm of commerce: A couple of people wrote to me about the advertisement for free magazine subscriptions that was sent to digerati. There's a small story behind this. Kevin J. Lipshitz is an a**hole on Staten Island, New York. He advertises his subscription business by sending messages to any and all internet mailing lists that he can find. The digerati list and another mailing list here at AI.MIT.EDU are on his list. I also have the privilege of having my personal email address in his targets. He ignores requests to remove names from his list, and issues threats of personal violence ("watch your back") when he is challenged. The email return addresses in his messages are forged; however, by examing the transport headers you can see that he originates his mail from a variety of internet service providers (AOL, NETCOM, FREEPPP) and modem ports providing unrestricted PPP or telnet access. The most recent message was sent via AOL; feel free to write to postmaster@aol.com to let them know what you think about Kevin. Kevin's been attempting to send mail to digerati for months now, but until last night a small bug in his forged headers caused Majordomo to reject the messages. No longer. Based on my experience, squelching KJL at the source is impossible. If you want, you can phone KJL up on his dime at his 800 number to tell him what you think: 800-433-1357. He'll feign confusion and deny everything. Also you can read more about Kevin in the Internet Advertiser's Blacklist, at http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/BL/blacklist.html There you'll also find a variety of other people to write to about Kevin. Peace, Brian ------------------------------ Date: 8 Apr 1996 11:13:27 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Little Pink Linctus Houses This is a response to a couple of older threads that I neglected to send out at the time... 1)Bucky Mucky, that plucky ducky from Kentucky sat in his trucky down at Stucky's, hoping he'd get lucky. That's really as far as I think I can go on that train of thought. Apologies to any who might be offended by humor at the expense of others, but it's kinda how I think I can get a cheap laugh.... 2) More made up news: Marillion announced that they will be doing a prog-rock-lite (tm) version of "Luminous Rose" for their upcoming album, _Yes, We Really Are Full of Ourselves_ Black Crowes will be doing a gut-wrenching version of "Cynthia Mask" for their soon-to-be-released album, _12 Steps and No Waiting_ Los Lobos does a spanish version of the Hitchcock song "Beautiful Girl" on their upcoming release _La Chica Bonita_ Springsteen unclogs his pipes doing that American ballad "Where Are The Prawns?" on his new release _Man, I Get Uglier Every Year and My Voice Gets Worse And It Just Doesn't Look Like I'm Ever Going To Learn To Play This Thing With All The Strings On It, But People Keep Buying My CD's- And That's The Important Thing!_ John Mellencamp seems to have slightly missed the point by doing "Vibrating" on his album _Stop Calling Me Cougar!_ Klezmatics do a Klezmer "Strawberry Mind" for a fund raising project _Chutzpah!_ Roger Waters does a particularly depressing version of "Balloon Man" on his release _Death is Cool- Decomposition is Even Better_ Don Henley is partially electrocuted onstage while singing a cover of the famous Robyn Hitchcock tune, "The Abandoned Brain" in a Hotel California vein as he concludes the Eagles rerereunion tour date. Sting tries rappin' "Wafflehead" live, and is crushed in a freak stage giant waffle iron accident. Neil Diamond attempted "Uncorrected Personality Traits" in an Hawiian concert "Diamond Heads at Diamond Head". As Mr. Diamond neglected to do his "Heart Light" and "Comin' ta Uhmeruka" gems, many fans were upset with his choice of material. Jimmy Buffet does a medley of Cheeseburger in Paradise/Railway Shoes/Cheeseburger in Paradise/Cheeseburger in Paradise on his album _I Know A Lot of Songs, But They All Have Something to do with Cheese_ Pink Floyd will be releasing an eight-hour epic rendition of "I Often Dream of Trains" for their "Giant Sesquepedalien Big Long Grandiose Really Huge Ideas" tour, CD boxed set, book, poster, and whatever else they may be able to merchandise. Rumor suggests that they will create a live major train collision at each of their 26 scheduled shows. LaToya Jackson will be performing "Agony of Pleasure" between demanding that audiences pay attention to her instead of her "no-talent-freak" siblings. She has stopped wearing clothes in public to call some attention to her cause. Ministry rounds out the RH news by doing "I Wanna Destroy You" with help from Trent Reznor, Nina Hagen, and Courtnay Love. This is the second time these mega stars of sonic irritation have joined forces to make a tribute effort. The first was ill fated recording of "All Out of Love" for the Air Supply tribute which was only released by KTEL Records. This week former president Reagan referred to former president Bush as "The Man With the Lightbulb Head". Some thought that this was a sign that he was coming out of his difficulties with alzheimers, since this clever reference to an obscure musical figure may suggest evidence of considerable mental acuity. Others, who believe that he was trying to make reference to the "thousand points of light" speech, were also heartened when he was able to construct a sentence which did not involve the use of the words "Mommy" or "Contras". It seems he hasn't been able to do that since before he was president. Piles of smiles, -Mark Gloster sadly the brains and harmless teeth of Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark rubrshrk@cruzio.com (new address folks) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 14:22:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: September Cones Correction F#m And when she's lonely (And when she's lonely) Bm She just gazes in the glass And when she's lonely (And when she's lonely) She just counts the blades of grass Missed the Bm last time... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: 08 Apr 96 17:06:51 EDT From: Positive Vibrations <101356.2516@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Naff/You & Oblivion a) The word 'Naff' is a British army term. Brothels in areas with large garrisons in the colonies were inspected regularly for syphilis; those failing the tests had NAF (No Armed Forces) painted on the door. Hence, 'Naf' - now usually written 'naff' - has come to mean cheap-and-nasty things in general. b) Does anyone have a _good_ quality recording of 'You & Oblivion' (the song, not the album)?. If anyone has, would they be willing to trade it for a copy of the _Surfer Ghost_, _Jet Set Flier_, _Against The Fall_ or _Demons & Fiends_ album - or anything else if you've already got them... Please e-mail first or write to us at the usual address to make sure someone else hasn't got there first. c) PVs 6 _is_ taking shape; if any of you subscribe or know anyone who does please please please tell them it's coming and to stop hassling us! _Bucketfull of Brains_ is more than a year late already... xxxxxx Aidan Barbara Tracy etcetera Thank ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:04:12 -0400 From: greybeard loon Subject: Re: That annoying magazine ad Also sprach "Brian Huddell" : >Hopefully the following excerpt from a message posted to another >list will save people some trouble in figuring out what to do about >this latest assault from the realm of commerce: (for the benefit of the digest subscribers, whom i spared from reading the 15 kilobytes of crap, fegmaniax was spammed this morning.) actually, the lipsitz spam is always caught by majordomo since krazy kev forges an Approved: header which has the wrong password for the list. incidentially, he struck over the weekend as well, but i was the only person who had to deal with it. lucky me. the johnchen00 spam from this morning is an unrelated incident. that account @aol.com has been deactivted, thanks to aol's prompt and responsive net.abuse team. unfortunately, the damage was done (in addition to fegmaniax, about six other lists that i am on got hit, not to mention hundres more). in light of this spam, which got through majordomo for a number of reasons, i have taken some precautions to hopefully prevent this from happening again. i can't guarantee that they are 100% effective, but they should prevent another spam-job like this one. i am not editing the list, but i may have to manually forward some messages which are snagged by the spamfilter. if you see a delay time between when your message is sent and when it appears in your mailbox, that is probably the reason. fret not: i'll take care of any legit posts that got hooked every evening after i get home. in the future, if fegmaniax or any list that you are on does get hit, i would ask that anyone who wishes to see this stuff eradicated from the net send a note to the offending party and the postmaster at that site complaining about the behavior. just make sure that you complain to the right person - some spam.artists are fairly accomplished forgers. i have a boilerplate file for this purpose, which goes a little like this: this note is in reply to either your unsolicited e-mail advertisement or your usenet newsgroup "spam". even if your internet provider's terms of service allows this misuse of the net (in case that it doesn't, i have cc'd this note to your postmaster and appended a copy of the e-mail or post), i am writing to voice my objection to this kind of behavior. i have not, do not and will not purchase products or services directly advertised unsolicited, whether by phone, fax, postal mail or e-mail. in addition, i think using the net to advertise in these manners is an abuse since most people have to pay for the priviledge of receiving e-mail. thus, advertising by e-mail or newsgroup post transfers *your* advertising costs to those you target. that's immoral and wrong. sincerely, woj you may wish to be less polite. ;) again, sorry about the spam and the added nuisance of the spamfilter, but i'm sick-n-tired of this and i don't want to see it on feg anymore. woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 19:34:50 -0400 From: greybeard loon Subject: spamfilter test make money fast free ---> busy college student staten island shergold ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 16:33:44 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: ISB >I remember several posts a few months back about the Incredible >String Band, and I discovered used Ryko/Hannibal CD reissues of two of their >records on a shopping spree today. I opted for the cheaper of the two, >1970's "I Looked Up", and have, on one cursory listen (very loud, so as to >keep it in my ear whilst doing the ol' Spring Cleaning) found it quite >charming. The other available disc was... erm.. the 1969 one. Neither >included any titles I remembered from the Robyn cover list. Anyone care to >refresh my memory, or provide any details of the essential albums? > >Rex I have the first 3 Ryko reissues: The Incredible String Band, The 5000 Spirits...Of The Onion and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. The first one isn't so great, but the other two are excellent. I recommend them! I was hunting for The 5000 Spirits for about five years prior to the Ryko reissue, so I was very glad it was re-released. I haven't really heard the later albums (just a couple of tracks here and there), but based on what I've read, the subsequent records are with a full band, unlike the early duo recordings -- more of a tribal love-fest thing. This approach sounds very dated to me, and not nearly as appealing. But since I haven't heard much of these discs, more informed views are welcome. Regards, The other Broome ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 22:29:35 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY Subject: A last, and not my haircut Hear ye Hear ye This is my last post from the venerable University of Houston...I think I've sucked off the withering tit ofs the the state of Texas long enough...and besides this freakin Vax editor has caused me more ulsers than its worth, so beginning tomorrow I will have a new and exciting PPP account...woohooo!.... ...so the new address is rasputin@onramp.net.....I'll be closing out the feg account tomorrow and chatting with the ecto majordomo....so if anyone was foolish enough to have me in their mailbooks....sorry I've beendealing with Euros all day and have picked up a Belgian syntax...change it.... chairs Jay k %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.