On Friday, 14 May 1999, a sort of anonymous news post was made by someone claiming to be joshua@en.com, soliciting abuse of open relays. The post was made to the following news groups:
Most responsible news sites don't carry alt.sex.pedophilia because of its use for trafficing in child pornography.
It also contained the following keywords:
Dean Anderson had recently been in a discussion about ORBS and IMRSS and RBL with Chris Neill and Steve Sobol among others.
A complaint was made to Michael B. Krause, contact for en.com about the abuse
On Sun, 16 May 1999 at 17:40:38 (EDT), Joshua responded to the complaint and said it was "trifling" and would be ignored. And indeed, it was ignored by EN.COM. Apparently, Joshua had some influence on the operation of EN.COM.
On Sun, 16 May 1999 at 18:49:55 (EDT), about an hour after Joshua's message, Doug Dever sent a message about the complaint made to en.com. Apparently, he also thought I had no business making a complaint to en.com and that abuse complaints amounted to "legal advice" reserved for lawyers. The interesting part of this is the timing, and that Dever got the message from either en.com or Joshua.
Dever includes and email address in the signature of chillin.com. [Chillin.com appears to expire in 2001, and is quickly re-registered by Dreamwiz.com, which is in Korea. After 2001, Dreamwiz is a frequent target of attempted abuse through AV8 relays.]
At this time, Chris Neill worked for Qual.net. Coincidentally, en.com and qual.net were both located on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
A complaint was also made with the FBI.
At some point, (prior to March, 2000) Chris Neill would be fired from Verio. In March 2000, Neill reports in a diatribe on the spam-l list against Dean Anderson, that he fired and was also investigated by the FBI. The diatribe leaves out and misrepresents what happened.