Just got off the phone with Sprint Security again, they absolutely refuse to stop the continuing (as of 15:40 EST Sat 1/4/97) mail bombing / mail loop of world.std.com from iq-internet.com, about 1,000 msgs today so far, well into the third full day of this. Understand: Sprint absolutely refuses to put ONE route block into their router at iq-internet.com between them and std.com. I did not ask them to shut the host down, shut their internet access down, etc. I simply laid out the problem of one site sending thousands upon thousands of msgs at us in a software loop, all going down a rathole (since we're blocking them), and asked Sprint to just please block this one route between us (and, with luck, deal with their customer but that's their problem ultimately.) Sprint refuses, apparently asserting that this one host has every legal right to bomb my (or I assume any) host with anything he likes via a Sprint connection and they will not acknowledge the possibility that this is merely software at his end out of control, or a person so malicious in their action that this one action should be blocked until it can be looked into, one action, merely the single path between iq-internet.com and std.com. Actually, the tone of the person I just spoke to at Sprint just now indicated to me they, meaning the individuals within Sprint security, may be now allowing this to go on purposely because they're now (since they're impotent to do anything about all this) getting annoyed with me calling them and asking them to please stop this every few hours etc. Well, sorry Sprint, so long as this guy keeps bombing my system non-stop I'm going to keep asking you to stop it every few hours (that's all that's gone on.) I'm not going to let you later say "hey we didn't know why didn't you tell us we thought it stopped!" etc. Sprint has now abandoned all rights or claims to be treated as reasonable people or fairly, they've had three days to assert their responsibility, others will now have to take responsibility for their absolutely reckless behavior. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989