MCI Mail Targets 2600

The folks at 2600 received this letter over a month ago.  Naturally, we were intrigued by the idea of somebody publishing MCI Mail passwords!  Had someone figured out a way to crack the system?  We tried to reach this David Boyd fellow but were very unsuccessful.  Instead we wound up talking to a surly individual who told us that he was unable to turn our account back on because he had no credit record on us.  He asked us all kinds of questions and we seemed to convince him that we were legitimate.  After 47 unreturned phone calls, he finally got back to us and said he was reactivating our account.

What's hard to understand here is why MCI Mail had to pull this crap about our password being published, when obviously nothing of the sort had occurred.  We received many calls this month from "non-legitimate" subscribers who had gotten the very same letter.  While we can see MCI Mail's concern about abused accounts (which was their own stupid fault; they made it so damn easy - see page 1-38), we can't understand why they tried to go after us - we weren't ripping them off at all.  While it's impossible to get solid proof, all evidence points to the fact that they didn't like the content of the messages we were getting, meaning that they browse through their subscribers' mail to make sure they're talking about the right things.

As of this printing, the account is still inactive.  We're sorry about all the mail that is continuing to pile up in there, but there's nothing at all we can do.  Perhaps a few complaints/threats are in order from our many customers.