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Re: I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quantum)
Sat Oct 12 07:16:09 1996
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 05:17:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quantum <quantum@obsidian.cse.fau.edu>
To: David Murray <dmurray@pdssoftware.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610111551.LAA15372@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
sorry.. but I cant help but feel that deleting someone's account because
they spammed a mailing list is a little too much. The guy obviously
beleived it was impossible to trace and didnt consider this as a
conciquence. Personally I would (and did) ignore it from day one. How
hard is it to press d on a message.
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, David Murray wrote:
> root@cyberhighway.com e-mailed me to say that the bonehead that sent
> the message had his account cancelled.
>
> I too e-mailed primenet. Their response was that they were just
> used as the e-mail gateway, and that they were referring it to
> cyberhighway deal with the problem (lots of us got that one).
>
> www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu is an un-moderated, open-to-the-world
> mailing list and they really have no responsibilty for controlling
> the postings to the list. That's probably in the FAQ, though I have
> to admit, I haven't read it. They're just providing the hardware and
> software to produce the list. So, don't blame them.
>
> We just saw that we can protect the list by protesting to the
> administrators of the site where the e-mail originated. In this
> case, people were referred to primenet and cyberhighway. How did we
> know that? Look at all the detail of the mail headers in the
> original message. You will see that a mail server at primenet sent
> it to rutgers, and further down you will see that primenet received
> it from cyberhighway. If your e-mail reader doesn't show you this
> info, find out how to turn it on (it happens to be Ctrl-H in my
> client). Send your complaints to root, postmaster, abuse, and/or
> support (if its an obvious ISP).
>
> The one unfortunate part of this incident is that cyberhighway (or
> any other ISP for that matter) can only keep this yo-yo off the
> 'net until he produces another credit card...
>
> Dave
