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Re: OT: Interesting email I received
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Fri Feb 1 16:58:56 2002
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:57:46 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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* goemon@anime.net (Dan Hollis) [Fri 01 Feb 2002, 22:29 CET]:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:35:32 -0700 Daniel Lark <dlark@elmresources.com> wrote:
>>> Geez... Can they paint a bigger target on themselves?
>> don't jump to conclusions; it might be a joe-job. wait-and-see is indicated.
> Did you, uh.. *cough*... look at their web page?
Just tried to; HTTP connections time out, traceroute ends in * * *.
Luckily it's been archived for posterity and still available here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020123192839/http://www.national-isp.org/
Quoting some text from there:
| National ISP Company is a business class BULK EMAIL INTERNET SERVICE
| PROVIDER, (ISP). Your high volume email ads are sent directly from
| our servers to your recipients.
[..]
| Our ONLY business is providing Internet Access for your email sending.
If it's a joe job, it's a particularly well-executed one, also defacing
the website and eradicating all traces of another company that legitly
used that IP space...
Regards,
-- Niels.
--
"The Internet is totally out of control, impossible to map accurately,
and being used far beyond its original intentions. So far, so good."
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal, May 1993
