[47084] in Cypherpunks
Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Fri Jan 12 16:54:44 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:39:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
This seems to have been confirmed in private email. So, what's the
real target?
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:15:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Subject: Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com
On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Eric Murray wrote:
> > Unless someone comes forward to say that they were the target of this
> > attack, I'd guess that the target is the remailer network itself.
>
> The target, Homer Wilson Smith, is one of the people embroiled in
> the Scientology wars. I don't want to get into the recent history
> of repression and abuse by Scientology agents & sympathizers, but
> my guess is that this is an attempt to harass someone that
> Scientology doesn't like.
Yes, I've heard of him. But doesn't the given address just forward to a
remailer? Have you seen anything to indicate that the flood really goes to
him?
Actually, last time I saw, he was no longer really embroiled. He was
backing off to become a neutral ISP. He still runs lazarus, of course.
-rich
