I catch wind of a person being mismailed that has nothing to do with eqemu.net. Checkout how this email is worded.
<email>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
antipiracy@vbulletin.com [mailto:antipiracy@vbulletin.com]
>Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:42 PM
>To: XXXXXX
>Subject: vBulletin Software Licensing
>
>Hi xxx -
>
>This is provided as a "heads up" in case your customer does not wish to comply
>
>Regards,
>Chuck Gurley
</email>
No, you are not seeing things. That is a winky face at the end of the line. Why would someone put such a thing in a professional email? Maybe they are smug? I feel they are unprofessional. Then, they threatened the hoster DMCA action against us if we didnt remove it, and this was in an email today!
<email>
----- Original Message -----
From:
antipiracy@vbulletin.com
To: Jonathan Dallion
Cc: xxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: vBulletin Software Licensing
December 11, 2002
Hi Jonathan,
We ran a standard trace-route on
www.eqemu.net which returned information indicating that the site was (and still is) running on IP 216.127.82.118, Node Name: eramnotes.com. According to the WHOIS, the hosting domain's contact is Rob xxxxx (xxxxx).
Under the circumstances, I'm not sure what "error" we are supposed to apologize for.
The "upstream" provider is EV1.net - and we could simply file a DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement with them, which would result in Mr. Malcolm's site being disabled, even though he was personally unaware of a problem. Out of common courtesy, we felt that it would be appropriate to give the "host" notice that there was a problem with a site running via his domain server. The WHOIS contained no information indicating that you were the web host, nor that you are the owner of the "IP block".
I can assure you that we are "literate"; we just don't happen to be psychic, as well.
Regards,
Chuck Gurley
</email>
That to me is still a threat to shut down the server. I hope you have found this enjoyable reading, and hope that you will decide not to renew your yearly licenses. You can get phpBB (our new board system), which actually has a processor load than the original software., at
www.phpbb.com. They even have a database converter to convert from this company's subpar, overpriced product, and have your new forum system running in under 20 minutes (took myself 15 minutes to convert the forums to useable, with 23950 posts and 4000+ topics).