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pmmon spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Simms)
Thu Nov 7 21:12:22 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:54:35 -0800
From: Daniel Simms <dsimms@alink.net>
To: ba-postmasters@LanMinds.com, nanog@merit.edu
We got spammed today, but I'm not totally convinced of how it happened.
Thus, this a sanity check for me.
So, this is my theory. It seems like the spamee list was an alias on
one of the Spammer's machines. The the From: field of the spam was that
*same* alias. Then there was a wave autoresponses directly to that
address. Then, the n(n-1) autobot free-for-alls ensued, since there
were several dozen infobots on the spamee list.
Is this plausable? Send comments my way.
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From pmmon@solgate.com Thu Nov 7 14:40:23 1996
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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:21:03 -0600
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To: pmmon@solgate.com
From: pmmon@solgate.com (Solgate, Inc.)
Subject: Announcing PMMON 2.0 (Terminal Server Monitor Software)
Solgate, Inc.
1822 E. First St.=20
Wichita, KS 67214
Tel: (316) 262-3131
Fax: (316) 264-4445
WWW: http://www.solgate.com/~thrasher/jwz/pmmon-2.0/
Email: pmmon@solgate.com
Wichita, Kansas, November 1996: =20
SolGate, Inc. announces the release of our PMMON 2.0 Terminal Server
utility software. This Terminal Server utility software was designed to
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