[Remops] New kind of stalking?

[Len Sassaman]

Hmm. Does anyone want to make a convincing argument that anonymous
messages serve a legitimate purpose when sent to cell-phones?

Otherwise, it might be reasonable to block the major providers' SMS
gateway domains. Luckily they are all, I think, unique from the main cell
provider addresses.

Note that I think this should be discussed and agreed upon my the remops
before anything more than individual blocking is done -- it's best if we
all do it, or none.

(And on a side note, shame on the cell providers for not allowing the user
to delete messages without reading them/being charged. What happens when
people spam those addresses?)


--Len.

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, eel bash wrote:

> Gentlemen:
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> I thought you might be interested in this if you haven't already come across it. I received a request to block an email address, which turns out to be the email address of a cell phone text address.
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> It was in the form 5555551212 at vtext.com. The vtext.com is Verizon.
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> This person is being sent literally hundreds of text messages to her cellphone that are coming through the eelbash remailer; or were coming through; they are now blocked.
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> This seems like an especially unpleasant form of harassment, since it costs the recipient 15 cents or so to open one of these, and if she doesn't open them, they block legitimate text messages (I think that's the case, not being very familiar with cell phones).
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> Anywhow, just thought I'd give you a heads up.
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--Len.