We got spammed today, but I'm not totally convinced of how it happened. Thus, this a sanity check for me. So, this is my theory. It seems like the spamee list was an alias on one of the Spammer's machines. The the From: field of the spam was that *same* alias. Then there was a wave autoresponses directly to that address. Then, the n(n-1) autobot free-for-alls ensued, since there were several dozen infobots on the spamee list. Is this plausable? Send comments my way. - --- begin original message ---
Got it too and your theory is correct. At least they were apologetic when I called to ream them ;) | Derek Elder V.P., Network Operations| | djelder@accessus.net 888-637-3638 Ext. 21 | On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Daniel Simms wrote:
We got spammed today, but I'm not totally convinced of how it happened. Thus, this a sanity check for me.
So, this is my theory. It seems like the spamee list was an alias on one of the Spammer's machines. The the From: field of the spam was that *same* alias. Then there was a wave autoresponses directly to that address. Then, the n(n-1) autobot free-for-alls ensued, since there were several dozen infobots on the spamee list.
Is this plausable? Send comments my way.
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From pmmon@solgate.com Thu Nov 7 14:40:23 1996 Received: from arya.solgate.com (root@arya.solgate.com [206.53.106.1]) by alink.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20969 for <info@alink.net>; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:40:19 -0800 Received: from usmani.solgate.com (usmani.solgate.com [206.53.106.8]) by arya.solgate.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA17352 for <pmmon@solgate.com>; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:21:03 -0600 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:21:03 -0600 Message-Id: <199611071721.LAA17352@arya.solgate.com> X-Sender: pmmon@arya.solgate.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: pmmon@solgate.com From: pmmon@solgate.com (Solgate, Inc.) Subject: Announcing PMMON 2.0 (Terminal Server Monitor Software)
Solgate, Inc. 1822 E. First St.=20 Wichita, KS 67214 Tel: (316) 262-3131 Fax: (316) 264-4445 WWW: http://www.solgate.com/~thrasher/jwz/pmmon-2.0/ Email: pmmon@solgate.com
Wichita, Kansas, November 1996: =20
SolGate, Inc. announces the release of our PMMON 2.0 Terminal Server utility software. This Terminal Server utility software was designed to - --- (truncted) end of original message ---
-- Daniel Simms "A common mistake that people make when trying to design dsimms@alink.net something completely foolproof [is] to underestimate the (408) 720-6161 ingenuity of complete fools" -Ford Prefect
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