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  <updated>2012-01-06T18:27:59Z</updated>
  <title>Comments for I sent off a dunning letter today.</title>
  <subtitle>We&apos;re the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost.  All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT,  and KA 2003-2010</subtitle>
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    <published>2008-06-04T15:10:37Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-21T13:04:35Z</updated>
    <title>I sent off a dunning letter today.</title>
    <summary>The offending bit of comment spam: agjybu@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah&apos;s Military Guys..] New Comment Posted to &apos;H&amp;I* Fires, 3 June 2008&apos; To: From: agjybu@gmail.com Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:51:39 -0400 A new comment has been posted on your blog Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah&apos;s Military Guys.., on entry #9262 (H&amp;I* Fires, 3 June 2008). View this comment: Edit this comment: IP Address: 58.65.235.213 Name: jhondogfrogs Email Address: agjybu@gmail.com URL: http://www.crengland.com Comments: could reach. off all what the tree, caught it up across accomplish had probably a real into the yard, I...</summary>
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      <name>The Armorer</name>
      <uri>http://www.thedonovan.com</uri>
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      <![CDATA[<p>The offending bit of comment spam:</p>

<blockquote>
agjybu@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: [Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..] New Comment Posted to 'H&I* Fires, 3 June 2008'
To: <my.email.addy>
From: agjybu@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:51:39 -0400

<p>A new comment has been posted on your blog Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.., on entry #9262 (H&I* Fires, 3 June 2008).</p>

<p>View this comment: <br />
Edit this comment: </p>

<p>IP Address: 58.65.235.213<br />
Name: jhondogfrogs<br />
Email Address: agjybu@gmail.com<br />
URL: http://www.crengland.com<br />
Comments:</p>

<p>could reach. off all what the tree, caught it up across accomplish had<br />
probably a real into the yard, I didn't by helping up to Street<br />
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<p>So, I sent off the following note.</p>

<blockquote>Mr. Miller - it seems there's been significant attrition at C.R.England based on all the bouncebacks I've been getting, and you guys aren't keeping the website up-to-date!

<p>If you want the rest, hit the Flash Traffic/Extended Entry.<br />
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      <![CDATA[<p>Please see below - I was trying to get ahold of Megan Rose based on the website - I'm taking the giant leap that since you have her former phone number, you  might have her job.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
 <br />
John</p>

<p>postmaster@crengland.com wrote:<br />
From: postmaster@crengland.com<br />
To: <my emaill addy><br />
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:59:36 -0600<br />
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)</p>

<p>This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.</p>

<p>Delivery to the following recipients failed.</p>

<p>HowardH@crengland.com</p>

<p>Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:58:31 -0700 (PDT)<br />
From: John and Beth <my email addy><br />
Subject: Fwd: A little help, please.<br />
To: howardh@crengland.com</p>

<p>Mr Howard - since Megan Rose's email is invalid (see below), perhaps you can help with this and forward it to the appropriate people in your firm.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
 <br />
John<br />
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:55:52 -0700 (PDT)<br />
From: John and Beth <my.email.addy><br />
Subject: A little help, please.<br />
To: meganr@crengland.com</p>

<p><br />
Ms. Rose - attached below my signature block is a comment left at my blog, www.thedonovan.com.  The blog is a moderately popular military and politics blog.  The comment is what we call "comment spam" and is de facto an ad for C.R. England.<br />
 <br />
I have the following disclaimer up on the site for situations just such as this:<br />
 <br />
<em>Legal Notice To Spammers <br />
Unsolicited advertising. If you place, or cause an agent to place, any unsolicited ads via any means, not limited to so-called 'comment spam' or 'trackback spam' you are assumed to agree to pay at the rate of $500USD per unsolicited URL. Contact the site owner for remittance instructions. Attempts will be made to collect this tariff, and a failure to make payment will result in formal actions against the advertising site.</em></p>

<p>Please tell me who to bill?</p>

<p> It beggars the imagination to think that someone is just doing this for chuckles and grins.  That's not how spammers operate.  Someone, somewhere, is paying a spammer to do this.<br />
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I pay for my bandwidth, and I do not provide it for commercial purposes, and I charge $500 when it is hijacked for that purpose.<br />
 <br />
I have actually collected this tariff twice thus far.  It's very simple for me to make a filing in small claims court locally.  Cheap, too.  And if you choose to fight it, two hours of any good lawyer's time will eat it up.<br />
 <br />
Please advise - and don't take any of this personally, I'm guessing you're not in charge of advertising.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
 <br />
John Donovan<br />
 <br />
John of Argghhh!<br />
www.thedonovan.com<br />
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<p>If I'm really lucky, the spammer will spam again - on this post because of the C.R. England tie-in, and I can double my money, double my fun.</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-06-04</title>
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        <name>John of Argghhh!</name>
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        Oh, I suspect not. They&apos;ll claim it was someone acting outside of their authority.

But it&apos;s fun to ping &apos;em, regardless.
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    <published>2008-06-04T20:21:58Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-04T20:21:58Z</updated>
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    <title>Comment from XBradTC on 2008-06-04</title>
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        I heartily hope you collect. You can use the $500 to buy ammo. Or horse feed. 
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    <published>2008-06-04T20:02:43Z</published>
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