[59975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Its not just Spam and DDOS anymore (was Re: OT: Re: User negligence?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Mon Jul 28 14:44:34 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:43:43 -0700
From: william+nanog@hq.dreamhost.com (Will Yardley)
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:56:01AM +0000, Peter Gray wrote:
> On the subject of host security issues and spam, try doing a search of the
> Usenet archive for '"Net Access Corporation" spam'. You get 328 results.
> And those are just the spams which people have traced to NAC, never mind
> the millions of untraced ones....
The fact that their abusebot automatically forwards complaints to the
spammer^Wcustomer (even setting the 'From' address on the autoresponse
to the customer's address) may have something to do with this.
--
"Since when is skepticism un-American?
Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..."
(Sleater-Kinney - "Combat Rock")
