[78-L] Repeat e-mails

[Michael Biel]

I was fortunate enough to only have the one initial message from him.  
But I am astonished that he had to pay his server provider to fix the 
Hong Kong problem which from the description seems to be their fault.  
Maybe that's the way they do things in Germany.  If he didn't pay them 
what would they have done?  Sounds like blackmail to me.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

David Lennick wrote:
> Unfortunately he's probably lost a lot of business, even though it wasn't his 
> fault. His address is now permanently rejected by my system because it was the 
> only way I could stop the flow of messages (1 via 78-C and 59 direct). He'll 
> probably have to get a new address. Although I've never ordered anything from 
> him and have no interest in what he sells (nor do I look at any European 
> auction lists since I prefer not to spend gazillions of dollars on shipping) 
> and never asked for his auction lists.
>
> dl
>
> goldenbough at arcor.de wrote:
>   
>> I had Ronny Busse on the phone about those hundreds of emails that people got. 
>> He told me that the problem is now solved. 
>> Some hackers had initially taken over his server which is located at, and run by 
>> one of the largest providers in Germany (STRATO). This company took the server 
>> off-line, but the problem was not solved, because the hackers continued to send 
>> out emails from Hong Kong. 
>> Himself, he receivced some 7,000 emails. 
>> He says that he had to pay the STRATO experts 3,000 euros (4,000+ $) to finally 
>> have the Hong Kong server stopped, which took 2 days in all due to the time lag 
>> and legal problems that had to be solved internationally. During that time his 
>> business was completely inoperable, because the computer was off. 
>> For what it's worth... 
>> Benno 
>>