[22287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ** Forged spamming going on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Dec 21 16:03:08 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:13:11 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: alex@nac.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981220164931.0097ea30@mail.megacity.org>; from Derek Balling on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 04:52:21PM -0800
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 04:52:21PM -0800, Derek Balling wrote:
> Just as an interesting note.. I seem to recall a spammer doing this in the
> past using a "big name" domain and losing quite a lot of money in the
> process from the resulting lawsuit.
The domain was flowers.com, the ISP was Zilker Internet Park in Texas, and
the judge found for the plaintiff.
Hope this helps.
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