(Fwd) Re: Bad Idea

Good News Folks!!
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As far as I can tell, cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything. What
happened instead was someone started forging email in the name of the
list's submission address to various of my mailbots, which simply send
an informational e-mail back.

If they HAD spammed it onto a list, it'd be easier,b ecause I have some
anti-spamming stuff  in place, plus full logging on where requests come
from. I haven't had that on the mailbots before now, because nobody's
done this before that i know of. Guess I'm spending the next few days
closing this loophole...

Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll clean this up as soon as I can, or at
least get logging in place to see where it's coming from, because
honestly, this one's a tough one to fix without just shutting down the
services.

And frankly, if someone's starting to use mailbots to spam, lists are
in big trouble, because there are zillions of those out there. Most
systems, for instance, have "info@xxxxx" addresses, all of which would
do exactly what my mailbots are doing.



chuq

At 5:23 PM -0800 12/26/96, admin@veracruz.net wrote:
>This service is a bad idea...it has been used to e-mail bomb the
>mailing list cypherpunks@toad.com. There was no verification message
>to make sure we wanted to be on this service. Please make an effort to
>correct this immediately.
>
>
>--
>This record generated from address: "206.205.234.41".
>This record generated at "6:22:00 PM" on "Thursday, December 26, 1996".
>
>The browser is "Mozilla/3.01 (Win95; I)" browser.
>The referrer was
>"http://www.plaidworks.com/NetForms.acgi$/ListAdmin/submit.fdml".


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Adam Breaux wrote:
 
> And frankly, if someone's starting to use mailbots to spam, lists are
> in big trouble, because there are zillions of those out there. Most
> systems, for instance, have "info@xxxxx" addresses, all of which would
> do exactly what my mailbots are doing.

  Well, I certainly hope that nobody uses this information to subscribe
others to a zillion lists.  Especially not the authors of such classics
as, "EASY MONEY!!!", "MAKE $$$ AT HOME", etc.
  I would hate for these people to be too busy to send me "IMPORTANT
INFORMATION ABOUT HOW 'YOU' CAN MAKE $$$ AT HOME, LICKING YOUR OWN
DICK!!!"

Toto
p.s. - for a limited time--offer open to CypherPunks only--anyone 
who sends me $20.00 will receive my special 'Secret Magic Chant',
which effectively blocks unwanted eMail.
  (This offer includes a clear Title to a bridge in the New York 
City area--absolutely free!)

Adam Breaux wrote:
> As far as I can tell, cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything. What
> happened instead was someone started forging email in the name of the
> list's submission address to various of my mailbots, which simply send
> an informational e-mail back.

  If cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything, then why did I get
50 million messages about sports in my mailbox?

Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca> writes:

> Adam Breaux wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything. What
> > happened instead was someone started forging email in the name of the
> > list's submission address to various of my mailbots, which simply send
> > an informational e-mail back.
>
>   If cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything, then why did I get
> 50 million messages about sports in my mailbox?

Because Ray Arachelian <ray@earthweb.com> is an inept forger and a liar.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Dr. Spam Dimi Vulis (spit) wrote:

> Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > Adam Breaux wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell, cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything. What
> > > happened instead was someone started forging email in the name of the
> > > list's submission address to various of my mailbots, which simply send
> > > an informational e-mail back.
> >
> >   If cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything, then why did I get
> > 50 million messages about sports in my mailbox?
> 
> Because Ray Arachelian <ray@earthweb.com> is an inept forger and a liar.

Because Vulis you are full of shit as usual.  You are of the old school 
of do something bad and blame it on others.  Sorry, that shit doesn't 
fly.

Tell us Vulis, just how much does the NSA pay for your services to cause 
mayhem here?


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