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Wolf-Dieter Roth
Robin Lynn Miller

Bergstr. 23a

D-86807 Buchloe
Germany

Phone +49-700-WOLFROTH

info at wolfdroth.de

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Information about spam mail with @ dl2mcd.de in the address!!!

Since 20th of August 2002 horrible amounts of junk mail are sent out with fake return addresses built like (girls name)(random number) @ dl2mcd.de. Content is the usual MLM and $$$ spam. They use this US post box address:

AGM
BOX 321
Hastings, MI 49058

Of course we are not the source of those mails, in fact we do not send out any mails under @ dl2mcd.de, as we keep mail and web seperated so our personal mail cannot be confiscated by German TV again. Still we have big trouble as thousands of complaints come in every hour and we cannot even empty the mailserver as quick as new complaints come in. Please complain to the spammer not us! We cannot do anything about it.


Those pages were designed by DL2MCD (Wolf-Dieter Roth) and Robin Lynn Miller. They were meant to be a cheper and faster alternative to sending out paper if people wanted to know what we are doing. Also we wanted safe and short email addresses so we could tell them to people on the phone. Standard internet providers had messed up our email several times before and in one case even gave our email address to another customer who then insulted everyone who send mail to that address.

 

On one side a website and a domain are almost a must nowadays. But for us it was only stress: we had 95% of people bugging us with insurances and lawsuits, including former employers (who were never mentioned on it in the first place) and a local German radio station claiming abuse of their brand which were (and unluckily still are - the German government doesn't allow me a name change) also the initials of the site's owner. Since then we are also forbidden to have a contact page with our address, phone, fax or email on it. The reason for that nonsense, as a lawyer explained: PR customers of "Westdeutscher Rundfunk" could decide to change to us as long as contact information is available. My personal opinion however is, that the totally invented and exaggerated blame of people mixing us up with them would fall apart if we were still allowed to say who we are on our webpage.

As under German law we are still required to have a contact information on the page but are not allowed to use our own address, here's the address of Westdeutscher Rundfunk:

Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Pressestelle Rüdiger Oppers
Appellhofplatz 1
D-50667 Köln (Cologne)
Germany


Phone +49-221-2202405
Fax +49-221-2202376

No, they do not have an email address for contacting them and do not want to use one either. They just do not want us to use email.

If you write them, be aware that they will refuse to forward anything to us as cutting us off information from our families and business partners and sucking in all the emails was the reason for the court case in the first place. Also they will not understand English or at least pretend not to. If you want to reach us, you may still always leave a message in our guestbook - as that is public and not confidential like email Westdeutscher Rundfunk cannot forbid it.

 
We learned from the whole thing, that websites addressed to professionals do not have a future on the net, as they are seen as a threat to big companys offering things to cosumers. TV wants to take over the internet by brute force and fill it with soap operas and similar stuff. They have tons of lawyers and enough money to go after the people they hate because they created the internet which distracted people away from old TV. A standard cease and decist letter in Germany now gives you 24 hours to react and you get sued over 500000 marks ($250000) if you cannot react in that time. This will ensure that small businesses and private individuals have to quit the net.
 
We will leave the site online for documentation purpose at the moment, but will not update it any further.
 

PS: In March of 2002 westdeutsche Rundfunk finally agreed on allowing contact information on our website again which had been forbidden by the cologne court in 2000. You can reach us directly again now at

Wolf-Dieter Roth
Robin Lynn Miller
Bergstr. 23a
D-86807 Buchloe
Germany

Phone +49-700-WOLFROTH

In April 2002 also a brand name registered in the beginning of 2001 came through. Thus you are allowed again to communicate with us electronically at
info @ wolfdroth.com

 
 
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