[3931] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: Read this -- and please forward. (NOT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James H Scott)
Tue Dec 31 12:32:51 1996
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:36:30 -0500
From: James H Scott <jimscott@fas.harvard.edu>
To: Dave Dittrich <dittrich@cac.washington.edu>
Cc: "Robert S. Hines" <robone@batelco.com.bh>,
"'Bobbie E. Hines'" <beh1@ra.msstate.edu>,
"'Carol & Mike Urso'" <zursoz@aol.com>,
"'Chad Nelson'" <wnelson@eng.usf.edu>,
"'David Tribble'" <tribble@batelco.com.bh>,
"'Debbie Winslow'" <dwinslow@batelco.com.bh>,
"'Michael Wegman'" <102525.15@compuserve.com>,
"'scooter@postoffice.syspac.com'" <scooter@postoffice.syspac.com>,
"'sneakers@CS.YALE.EDU'" <sneakers@CS.YALE.EDU>,
"'Uncle Eddie'" <minekime@econ.ucsb.edu>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Dave Dittrich wrote:
>
> NO. Don't. I have personally spoken with the woman mentioned in the
> post and she says it was never meant to leave their corporate email
> system, but someone did forward it out. HMCO is swamped with email,
> so is she. DO NOT FORWARD IT ON OR REPLY TO IT! It is totally out of
> control.
>
> If you don't believe me, call them yourselves.
>
> On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Robert S. Hines wrote:
>
> >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 20:28:44 +0500
> >From: trinity stalker <tstalker@vt.edu>
> >To: PAD-LAW@GMU.EDU
> >Subject: RE: Community service that takes 30 seconds: books for kids!
> >>RE: Community service that takes 30 seconds: books for kids! (fwd)
> >>
> >>
> >>Please take the 30 seconds it requires to send e-mail to the below
> >>address to do a good thing for kids and literacy. (For all of you who
> are
> affiliated with a college or corporation, please forward this message
> to
> >your colleagues/classmates/students, etc.)
> The Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Co. is donating books to children's
> hospitals; how many books they give depends on how many emails they
> receive from people around the world. For every 25 emails they receive, theygive
> one book--it seems like a great and easy way to help a good cause.
There was also an article in yesterday's _Wall Street Journal_
about the site getting flooded with messages. They expected
a total of ~30-50k messages. They are still getting upwards of that
number per day. All to /dev/NULL. They long since maxed out the offer
of 2,000 books donated for 50,000 emails. (I may have some of these
numbers slightly wrong....doing it from memory.)
On a more related topic (!)
Anyone have any specifics on how hacker's got into the USAF web site?
Everything I've seen today is very vague.
jim
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