Wasn't it later revealed that Uunet had a contract with Ahmet Cosar (the second human behind the Argic pseudonym, after Hasan Mutlu) that let Cosar spam away?<p>I believe Uunet ended up guilty of several such "pink contracts".<p>Cosar was a grad student at University of Minnesota, and after his student visa ran out 'Argic' mysteriously disappeared.