[13812] in North American Network Operators' Group
ibm.net subscriber faking mail/subscriptions to list (was: Re: hmm..)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Slemko)
Tue Nov 18 00:44:05 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:34:09 -0700 (MST)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971117193700.12515I-100000@fiona.orc.ca>
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Tim Harrison wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, James D. Butt wrote:
>
> > Is it just me or..
> >
> > I just received 2 "Welcome to nanog" messages and then this...a bounce..
> > Is someone playing with us?
>
> I just got a whole bunch more too. nanog being subscibed to different
> mailing lists.
>
> Someone *is* playing with us.
Someone from slip166-72-5-121.il.us.ibm.net is faking subscribe requests
and mail to the list, as shown clearly in the
marilyn@mozart.lib.uchicago.edu subscription and the billg@microsoft.com
forgery. They are almost certainly behind the other items as well. If
you dislike this, contact ibm.net.
Please let's not have a huge thread of "me too!"s.
