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Subject: alt.sex.prostitution FAQ (1/4)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:12:26 GMT
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***** Welcome to Alt.Sex.Prostitution! *****

We're glad that you've found us.  Please take a moment to read this
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file, as it will help you understand
the standard etiquette (netiquette) for this newsgroup.  This file is
Part 1 of 4 which will be posted every two or three weeks.  A special
thanks to Ms. Margo (co-founder of alt.sex.femdom) for originating
this FAQ.  Thanks also to Catherine La Croix of COYOTE/Seattle and
Carol Leigh of the ProstitutesÆ Education Network for supplying
additional material.

The FAQ is divided into 4 parts as follows:

Part 1:  General information about the newsgroup and the
         World Sex Guide.
Part 2:  Questions and information about prostitution
         in general.  [Under construction]
Part 3:  List of organizations that support prostitution
         or prostitutes or are working to decriminalize
         prostitution.
Part 4:  Suggested reading list on prostitution and
         prostitutes' rights.


***** What Is Alt.Sex.Prostitution?

Alt.sex.prostitution was chartered as an unmoderated newsgroup
intended for discussion and information exchange about all aspects of
prostitution, including but not limited to the legal situation in
different countries, prices, reviews of brothels, bars, clubs, massage
parlors, escort services, call girls, street prostitutes, and requests
for information.  It was newgrouped in August 1995 to replace the
dying alt.sex.services and alt.sex.brothels.

If your internet provider does not carry alt.sex.prostitution you can
usually get them to do so by simply making a request (you can try
email to [e-mail], i.e, your internet provider address, not
the words "your.site").

This newsgroup supports prostitution and encourages efforts to
decriminalize it (see definition in Part 2), but discussion of other
viewpoints, including anti-prostitution viewpoints, is also welcome.

The newsgroup charter also states that commercial ads are not allowed,
but obviously in an unmoderated newsgroup this is impossible to
enforce (efforts to discourage ads are discussed below).  It will
unfortunately be necessary for you to wade through the ads and spams
(irrelevant cross-postings to multiple groups) to get to the good
information in this newsgroup.  A beginner can very quickly learn to
recognize which articles are worth retrieving, however.

This is not an appropriate group for discussion of strip-clubs or
phone sex, and it is not appropriate for posting of advertisements,
binary files, or fiction stories.  There are specialized newsgroups
for these types of items (see below).


***** Where Can I Get Laid in ...(Mytown,
      the Place IÆm Going to Visit, etc. etc.)?

This is, quite naturally, the most frequently asked question in this
newsgroup.  The first place you should look for answers is the World
Sex Guide, maintained by Atta and located at:

      http://www.paranoia.com/faq/prostitution/

It is also available for ftp download as a large (>800Kb) gzipped tar
file at <ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/electronic-publications/twsg>.

The bulk of the World Sex Guide consists of a compilation of posts
from this newsgroup about where to find prostitutes and at what price.
The World Sex Guide is updated irregularly every two or three months
when Atta has a free weekend to devote to the task.  The "From" lines
and the signatures are always deleted before an article is archived in
the World Sex Guide.  If you send something in and you specifically
want your email address to be left in, please indicate this.  If you
specifically do not want your article archived at the web site, feel
free to mention that as well.

New people are encouraged to check the World Sex Guide before posting
requests for information to this newsgroup.  Often the information you
are looking for will already be there.

The World Sex Guide also contains articles giving general advice on
how to deal with escorts, massage parlors, streetwalkers, etc.  Such
articles can be found at the beginning of the United States section
and at the end of the JayHawk report.  There is also some information
about the legal status of prostitution around the world, and other
general information about prostitution.  Virtually every
prostitution-related resource on the internet should be accessible
from there.


***** This Is Cool!  How Can I Help?

Simple:  Post your reports on the availability of various sexual
services in your area or areas you visit.  If you are a geographer and
you just discovered the lay of the land, let us know.  If you got
ripped off, expose the rip-off artist here (itÆs a good way to get
even).  Pooling our information is, after all, the only way we get the
information at all.

This newsgroup is only as good as its participants.  As in any form of
social intercourse, politeness goes a long way.  A number of people
who have posted here have been swamped with semi-literate requests for
more information instead of with Thank YouÆs or, much better yet, a
posting of more information.  Show your appreciation for what other
people post by posting what information you obtain.

Information of the type being sought here often gets out of date very
quickly.  Please do your part by contributing regularly anything you
know that would be useful to others in the group.  That is the best
way to help create a healthy group where you can also find the
information you want.


****** How Can I Help Readers Find My Posts?

To help differentiate the wheat from the chaff in this newsgroup, it
greatly helps to begin on-topic reports with [ASP] in the subject
line.  Posts denoted in this fashion will generally float to the top
or bottom of alphabetized news lists, and even if they don't they are
much easier to recognize.

Requests for information should be clearly identified as requests in
the subject line.  Otherwise, they are more likely to irritate readers
and less likely to get a reply.  Readers may get irritated when they
open a post that says, for example, "[ASP] Dallas outcall" in the
subject line, only to find out that it's a request for information
rather than a report or recommendation.  Requests are welcome in the
newsgroup, but they would be easier to identify if they were denoted
with the word "Request" or even just a question mark, e.g. "[ASP]
Dallas: Request" or "[ASP] Dallas outcall?"  This enables readers to
identify more easily the queries that they might be able to help
somebody out with.

It is also easier to identify posts if the geographic reference is
placed early in the subject line.  For example, "[ASP] Dallas escort
sought" jumps out more quickly than "[ASP] Escort sought in Dallas."

It is also a good idea to avoid using any words in your subject line
that readers might have in their "kill files" which are used to
automatically screen out some of the spam in the newsgroups.  Such
words could include the likes of the following:  1-800, 1-900, 011,
(800), (900), $/min, WWW, nigger, homo, queer, Clinton, Newt, jpg,
mpg, jpeg, avi, gif, free, phone, cum, cunt, pussy, ass, fuck, cock,
crave, hole, tight, ass, slut, whore.  You get the idea.  Subject
lines in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS are also often ignored because they are
characteristic of spam and are considered SHOUTING.  One of the best
spam filters is one which ignores anything that is cross-posted to
five or more newsgroups.


****** How Can I Post Anonymously?

Posting anonymously is very common in the alt.sex newsgroups because
people may not want their neighbors, families, co-workers, or other
associates to know about their activities (or even their thoughts) on
topics in these newsgroups.  There are several ways to accomplish this
objective (please let me know if you find any others).  Besides the
ways listed here, you can post directly from MailMasher as described
in the next section on anonymous email.

1.  With your newsreader.

One way to be somewhat anonymous is to simply place a fictitious name
and email address in the user profile of your newsreader software.
Your internet provider will be identified, but you wonÆt be.  You
should test this first by posting to alt.test (or some other newsgroup
where you donÆt care if you are anonymous) to make sure that your name
and email address do not appear in the headers.  The information on
who you are will still be in your internet providerÆs log files, so if
someone files a complaint on something you posted that could be
interpreted as spamming or illegal, your provider could identify you.
This method would generally not be a good idea if you want to post
from work, since if you are using your employerÆs server they would be
able to identify you.  This method may be sufficient for your needs,
however, if your only concern is that you donÆt want your family or
friends to know that you are posting here.

2.  Anonymous remailers.

The most popular anonymous remailer, anon.penet.fi (located in
Finland), was closed down by the owner on August 30 (1996) in response
to a Finnish court decision that email over the internet is not
protected by Finnish privacy laws.  The court decision resulted from a
petition from the Church of Scientology, and is being appealed.

A simple method to post anonymously to this newsgroup is to use an
anonymous remailer in conjunction with a mail-to-news (mail2news)
gateway.  There are several such remailers, but only two gateways that
I know of that will post to this newsgroup.  These two gateways are
<myriad.alias.net> and <news.demon.co.uk>.

Any of the following remailers will anonymize your message using the
technique described below:

     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]

HereÆs how to post anonymously:

 1. Email to any one of the above remailers
 2. The subject should be the subject of your post
 3. On the first line of your message type a double colon ("::")
 4. On the second line type:
    Anon-To: [e-mail]
       OR    [e-mail]
 5. The third line should be blank
 6. Start your message on the fourth line
 7. Remember not to use a signature!!!!!!!!!

In other words, the body of your email should look like this:

>::
>Anon-To: [e-mail]
>
>Hello, I'm reporting on.....(whatever)

ThatÆs it!  Send it off, and the nice folks at the remailer will strip
off all the identifying headers and send your message along to the
nice folks at the mail2news gateway (either myriad.alias.net or
news.demon.co.uk) who will make it pop up in the newsgroup.  The folks
at myriad.alias.net were even kind enough to add this newsgroup to
their gateway at my request.

You can post anonymously this way, but you will not be able to get
replies by email.  You can get more information about the remailers by
sending a message to any of the remailers with the subject
"remailer-help" (without the quotation marks).  The help files you
will receive are essentially identical for all of these remailers, so
one such help file should be sufficient.  A few of the remailers have
an "Anon-Post-To" function, but it will not work for this newsgroup so
you will need to modify their instructions as indicated above (i.e. go
through a gateway) to post here.

Since remailers and gateways are subject to change and periodic down
times, and since both must be operative for this to work, these
methods may at times be unreliable.  If your post does not appear
within two days, you can assume it was lost and should try again,
perhaps with another remailer.


***** How Can I Get Email Replies
      and Still Be Anonymous?

The remailers listed above (and others) provide greater security if
you use encryption, and setting up an encrypted reply block is also
possible but it is complicated and is beyond the scope of this FAQ.
Updated information and links on remailers can be found at
<http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html>.  The links will
lead to the necessary PGP encryption software and the optional Private
Idaho software interface.

There are a number of other email services available which may be
anonymous enough for your purposes, although in all cases you are
relying on the provider to keep you anonymous.  You will need to
decide if this provides the degree of security you want.  Some of
these services are listed below.  To post to this newsgroup from any
of these services, you can send email directly through a gateway, i.e.
to <[e-mail]> or
<[e-mail]>.

AOL.  AOL has been called "the largest anonymous remailer in the
world" because it allows up to five screen names, each of which is a
pseudonym traceable only by AOL and law enforcement.

POSTONE.  PostOne is a free email forwarding service based in
Singapore.  They forward email to your regular email address, and you
can mail from them either from their web page or by placing
appropriate footers at the end of your message.  They make money by
placing short ads at the end of your incoming mail (these are not very
intrusive).  Whatever name you place in the name field when you
register will appear in your email, so place your anonymous moniker
(not your real name) in the name field when you sign up.  The system
is very easy to use and very fast.  The Singapore company states:  "We
undertake not to track, alter or reveal private communication.  Our
service is bound by the law and public policy."  Despite the fact that
prostitution is legal there, Singapore does not have a good track
record on civil liberties, and it has been reported that Singapore
recently started to monitor and censor all incoming web traffic.
YouÆll have to decide if you trust this situation.  You can get more
information and sign up for the service at <http://www.mailhost.com>.

MAILMASHER.  MailMasher is a free web-based email service that
specifically supports anonymity and does not ask your name or real
email address.  They say that they keep no logs on their server so its
anonymity should be more than adequate for most people.  You can get
details and set up an account immediately at
<http://www.mailmasher.com>.  You can also post to
alt.sex.prostitution directly from MailMasher (even though this
newsgroup is not on the list of available groups).  Since you use your
web browser to get mail, the mail loads more slowly than it would with
a direct email service.  They request donations to support their
service.

EDTEC.  Edtec offers a service that works very much the same as
anon.penet.fi did, but at a cost of $5 a month.  They can be found at
<http://www.edtec.com/anon.html>.


***** Are There Other Prostitution-Related FAQs?

There is an FAQ specific to legal prostitution in Nevada (U.S.A.)
maintained by Bashful and located at:

      http://www.paranoia.com/~bashful/

Other prostitution FAQ files, some of which are area-specific, are
posted from time to time by various users, so keep your eyes open for
them.  These will also be added to the World Sex Guide web site
whenever it is updated.


***** Is Alt.Sex.Prostitution Archived Anywhere Else?

Yes.  All newsgroups are archived at Deja News
<http://www.dejanews.com>.  This is a good place to search for
articles that have not yet been archived in the World Sex Guide.  Go
to Deja News and click on "Power Search."  Then click on "Create a
Query Filter" and put alt.sex.prostitution in the field.  Then specify
the dates you want the search to include and submit the query filter.
Then initiate a search for the city or country you are interested in.
If you would like to pull up all articles for the past month or so, go
to "Power Search" and put "~g alt.sex.prostitution" (without the
quotation marks) in the field.  DonÆt ask me for additional help with
this, since I have already written all I know.  Use the help files at
Deja News if you need more help.


***** Do Any Sex Workers Read this Newsgroup?

Yes, there are several sex workers who regularly read and sometimes
post to this newsgroup.  Their input is particularly valued and if you
see one post, please don't swamp her mailbox with wannas (wannafucks)
unless she asks for them.  Sex workers are strongly encouraged to post
to this group.  Please feel free to post anonymously if it makes you
feel more comfortable about posting here.


***** Where Can I Find Related Newsgroups?

You might enjoy some of the following newsgroups as well:

  alt.sex.strip-clubs - Discussion of strip clubs and strippers.
  alt.sex.telephone - Discussion of phone sex and phone sex ads.
  alt.sex.brothels - Discussion of brothels worldwide.
  alt.sex.femdom - Discussion of female domination (Dominatrix).
  alt.sex.services - A mixed bag of sex-related services.
  alt.sex.movies - Discussion of X-rated movies, videos, & pornstars.
  alt.sex.wizards - General sex questions and answers.
  alt.sex.safe - Safe sex questions and answers.
  sci.med.aids - About HIV/AIDS, mostly by medical professionals.


***** What Can I Post Here?

No one runs (moderates) this newsgroup and no one can stop you from
posting.  As a part of the alt (alternative) hierarchy this newsgroup
is open to any and all postings.  However, it is proper netiquette
(net-etiquette) to keep your posts to the topic of the newsgroup.  If
your reply is directed to one specific person, please use an e-mail
reply.  If you are replying to a long post, please use your editor to
cut the material you quote down to a manageable size.  If you quote
180 lines and then add "Me too!" at the bottom you will look like a
jerk.  Keeping your line length to 78 characters will stop the last
word of your post from wrapping around onto a new line when it's read
by others.  Don't post a message in ALL CAPS since that means that
you're SHOUTING!

This newsgroup has always been fairly friendly, so please keep flames
to a minimum.  If you flame someone you open yourself up to being
flamed even worse.  Spelling and grammar flames are inappropriate.  It
is information thatÆs important, not perfect spelling.  All of us make
occasional typros anyway.  A.O.L.-bashing is now passe.  If you're
flaming someone privately, keep in mind that tactics like mailbombing
and forged cancels can cause you to lose your own account.  If you
want to complain about someone's post, send e-mail to
[e-mail] or [e-mail].  This is preferred over
filling up the newsgroup with flames about an obvious jerk.

Spams (posts to many off-topic newsgroups) and posting chain letters
or pyramid schemes such as Quickcash, Make Money Fast (MMF), and the
Recipes scam will usually cause you to lose your account.  Posts such
as MMF are considered fraud and are illegal in many areas.  It will
also make everyone on the net hate you and think you're retarded.
Don't do it.


***** Can I Post An Advertisement Here?

Ads are not welcome here.  Part of the reason that
alt.sex.prostitution was created was to try (in vain) to escape the
crush of advertisements.  Several people are actively working to send
letters of complaint to the Postmaster of anyone who posts commercial
ads to this group.  The posting of advertisements to *discussion*
newsgroups is also prohibited by the providers of most services
including .edu sites, .mil sites, A.O.L., Delphi, Prodigy, Compuserve,
Netcom, Earthlink, The Well, anon.penet.fi, and most others (check
with Support or Postmaster at your site if you're unsure of your own
rules).  If you have something to advertise, please use the following
newsgroups which are O.K. for ads:

      alt.sex.erotica.marketplace - General products/services for
sale.
      alt.sex.telephone - Phone sex ads.
      alt.bbs.ads - BBS ads.
      alt.sex.magazines - Magazines for sale and wanted.
      alt.sex.wanted - Looking for love or just a little relaxation.

Please note that many Internet services offer "kill lists" or "kill
files" that allow users to automatically kill all messages from
specific posters or specific sites.  Therefore, if you post an ad, you
are likely to end up in many kill files and then *none* of your
messages will get through to anyone.


***** Can I Post a Personal Ad Here?

You can, but it's a dumb thing to do.  There are very few females who
read this newsgroup and most of those are business Ladies.  If your
personal doesn't involve payment for services it belongs in
alt.sex.wanted or one of the many alt.personals.* newsgroups.


***** Why Don't I See Answers to Most of
      the Requests for Information?

Some people don't want to post publicly about their possibly illegal
activities.  Many of these questions are answered in private e-mail.
This doesn't help everyone else reading, but that's the way it goes.
If you have a specific question, post it and hope for a response.

If your request is seen as too crude, you may not get a response.  A
poster's words are the only way readers have of judging him.  A poster
who can't put a sentence together with a subject and a verb in the
right place, who doesn't know where the shift key is, and who doesn't
know the difference between a period and the space bar, is perhaps
less likely to get a response.  A lot of our readers are looking out
for the ladies and respect them too much to refer somebody to them who
might not treat them as they should be treated.

Another reason that responses might be lacking is that people get
tired of responding to information requests after a while if they
donÆt get at least a few strokes for doing so.  If you put in a
request for information on a particular city, and someone emails you
30 kilobytes of information that was posted a couple of weeks earlier,
send that person a nice Thank You and then post an item to the group
about what you were able to confirm about the information or what you
found to be different.  This helps keep the group going smoothly and
makes it more likely that the next person will get a response as well.

If you would like to respond to an information request, but don't feel
comfortable doing so, please use one of the anonymous remailers (see
above) to post your answer.  Many of the other readers will appreciate
seeing a response.


***** Where Are the Pictures/FTP Sites/
      Secret Porn/Me Too/Me Too/Me Too

Binary pictures can be found on-line in the alt.binaries.pictures.*
newsgroups.  If you can't get these newsgroups from your site then get
a provider who carries them; don't whine that people should post them
here.  Binaries take up a lot of space on systems and in downloads of
mail packets, so please be considerate and keep them in their place.

Stories can be found in alt.sex.stories (basic porn) or
rec.arts.erotica (literary porn).  Stories can also be found in the
various alt.sex.fetish.* groups that are specific to the topic of the
group.

Don't ask that people post the addresses of secret ftp sites of porn.
If someone actually did post (which has happened), 100,000 people
would try to access the site, the Sysadmin of the site would notice,
and it would immediately be shut down.  The best you can do is ask
that someone send you one by e-mail.  If you don't have one to trade
you're not likely to get any takers.

Postings offering lists of erotic binary sites, or adult binaries by
mail, or nude binaries of famous women are all pranks or scams.  The
people posting these messages are either trying to see how many idiots
they can get to follow-up and ask for this stuff, or are trying to get
you to send them money.  Be smart and don't be taken in.

If someone requests something don't be one of the hundred fools
posting a "Me too!" follow-up.  Either write the original poster via
e-mail asking for the information or wait for the information to be
posted.


****** How Can I Fight Spam on A.S.P?

[This article contributed by Atta]

Most people just ignore advertising spam on our newsgroup; however, if
you feel like doing a good deed and punishing the assholes a little
bit, here's what you can do.

Most assholes do the spamming from a regular dial up account with an
Internet Service Provider; most providers nowadays have provisions
against spamming in their acceptable-use policies.   So the only thing
we have to do is to find out the originating site and send a polite
message to its postmaster.  Chances are that the asshole will get his
account yanked without a refund.

Some more sophisticated assholes have their own domain and act as
their own postmasters.  In this case, we need to find out who provides
the internet connectivity to them and complain to that place.  Enough
complaints and their net access will be cut off.

First of all, you need a couple of utilities.  The exact names of the
programs differ from operating system to operating system, but there
are freeware versions of all of them around.  Look in your favorite
freeware archive.

1. A newsreader that can show you all the header
   lines of an article, as in the example below.
   Chances are that your newsreader can do it
   already; read the documentation.  If not, get
   another one.

2. A program that can do "whois" lookups.  The
   whois database contains contact information
   (including address and telephone number) for
   all domains on the internet (such as
   superlink.net for example).

3. A traceroute program. Using traceroute, one can
   find out where a rogue site gets their internet
   connectivity from.

Now let's look at a typical spam on alt.sex.prostitution, including
all the header lines:

=============Start of spam===============
Path:
fu-berlin.de!news.nacamar.de!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!voskovec.radio.cz!news..cesnet..cz!01-newsfeed..univie..ac..at!swidir..switch..ch!nntp..coast..net!howland..erols..net!EU..net!news..sprintlink..net!news-peer..sprintlink..net!uunet!in3..uu..net!earth..superlink..net!news
From: legs <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups:
alt.sex.erotica,alt.sex.exhibitionism,alt.sex.fetish,alt.sex.fetish.motorcycles,alt..sex..fetish..panties,alt..sex..fetish..tinygirls,alt..sex..fetish..tongue,alt..sex..gangbang,alt..sex..glory-holes..sites,alt..sex..masterbation,alt..sex..pedophilia,alt..sex..erotica..marketplace,alt..sex..telephone,alt..sex..services,alt..sex..orgy,alt..sex..erotica..market..place,alt..sex..fetish..orientals,alt..sex..girl..watchers,alt..sex..masturbation,alt..sex..prostitution,alt..sex..safe,alt..sex..strip-clubs,alt..s
ex..prostitution,alt..sex..brothels,alt..sex..anal,alt..sex..oral,alt..sex..pictures,alt..sex..wanted,alt..sex..first-time,alt..sex..sm..fig,alt..sex..jp,alt..sex..fetish..size,alt..sex,alt..sex..phone,alt..sex..girls,alt..sex..balls,alt..sex..breast,alt..sex..young,alt..sex..bondage,alt..sex..sgml,alt..sex..teens,alt..sex..uncut,alt..sex..voyeurism,alt..sex..wanted..models,alt..sex..watersports,alt..sex..marketplace
Subject: Are You Hungry for a Hot, Wet Pussy?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:25:40 -0800 Organization: TWI
Lines: 3
Message-ID: <[e-mail]> NNTP-Posting-Host:
nb-dialup-88.superlink.net Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I; 16bit)
How about a little 69 action?
Satisfy your taste!
Call now  1-500-677-LICK
=============End of spam======================

It is possible to fake all header lines in a usenet article (except
for the Path-header to a certain extent, see below), so don't trust
anything blindly.  The more sophisticated the asshole, the better they
can falsify headers.  Most assholes are pretty dumb though.  Faking
the From-header is most common; almost all newsreaders allow this.  So
[e-mail] is probably not a valid email address.  We can
verify this quickly using the whois program; it will tell us whether
the domain hotgirls.net exists and who its administrator is.  If it
exists, we send a complaint to [e-mail].

However, since [e-mail] is probably an asshole, we
could follow up with a traceroute search on hotgirls.net, which would
give us the exact path along which internet traffic from our site
travels to hotgirls.net.  The last but one site in this chain is the
site that provides internet connectivity to hotgirls.net, and its
postmaster is then also the proper place to complain to.  (For the
proper format of a complaint, see below.)

The Sender and NNTP-Posting-Host headers of a usenet article are much
more difficult to fake, and so we see that the asshole used netscape
(=Mozilla) to post from a dial-up account on superlink.net.  This is
reconfirmed by the fact that the last entry in the Path header is also
superlink.net.  The Path header works like this:  whenever a usenet
article arrives at some site, the site checks whether its name already
appears in the Path header.  If it does, the article is discarded; if
it doesn't, the site prepends its own name, followed by '!', to the
Path header and forwards the article to all its usenet neighbors.  In
this way, the Path variable always tells us which path the article
took from the source to us.  (Our article above went through
Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Denmark before it reached
Germany; I picked it off a newsserver in Berlin.  Note that this
usenet path is different from the internet path gotten from
traceroute.)

So in our example, everything points to superlink.net.  A complaint to
[e-mail] is definitely in order.  What should the
complaint look like?

1. Be polite.  Remember, the postmaster is not the
   asshole.  He is on our side.

2. Explain that commercial spam which is unrelated
   to our newsgroup's topic is not allowed on a.s.p.
   As proof, include the charter of a.s.p. which is
   contained elsewhere in this FAQ.

3. Ask them to take appropriate action against the
   spammer.

4. Include a copy of the spam, complete with all
   the headers.

5. If you were able to find out the asshole's real
   email address (rare), CC your complaint to them.

Every once in a while, you will come across a domain where the asshole
is the postmaster himself.  If that is the case, don't bother to deal
with them; instead, find out their upstream site using traceroute as
explained above and complain to its postmaster.  You can then do two
things in addition:

1. http://www.vix.com/spam/ maintains a list of
   rogue domains which don't follow generally
   accepted netiquette; every site on the internet
   is encouraged to refuse all internet traffic
   originating from these domains.  You can nominate
   the rogue domain you found for that list.

2. You can talk to your own ISP and ask them
   whether they would be willing to block all
   traffic from said rogue site.  If they do,
   you'll never have to see any spam (email or
   usenet) from them again.

One more thing:  advertising a 1-900 number without giving the price
per minute is a federal crime; simply forward the article to the FCC
in such a case.  They can find out who owns the number.


***** Who The Hell Are You Anyway?

Just your average horny guy who has volunteered some time to do some
of the housekeeping chores for the newsgroup and the web site.  Sort
of my contribution to humanity.  I believe that sex work should be a
legal (fully decriminalized) and respected profession and wish to
promote responsible and respectful relationships between client and
sex worker.

Comments and suggestions for this FAQ are appreciated and can be sent
to me at <[e-mail]> (thatÆs post"ONE" not post"L").  DonÆt
bother asking me where to find a prostitute in your city, as I wonÆt
bother to respond.  All I could do is repeat whatÆs in this message by
referring you to the World Sex Guide and to this newsgroup.

And remember, always treat your sex worker with respect!