[14581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Jan 7 22:48:33 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:42:55 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
To: NetSurfer <netsurf@sersol.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.980105171935.12005C-100000@dns> [9801.05]
On Jan 5, NetSurfer <netsurf@sersol.com> wrote:
> What about representing yourself to be from another domain (e.g. AOL.COM)
> so that the rejects/flames/etc. go to an innocent agent? Isn't that a
> form of fraud?
Yes, and both AOL and Compuserve have won civil court cases
based on that.
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