[71034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Site elimination service -:) - I received offer by 's'p'a'm'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sun Jun 6 10:03:52 2004
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:02:54 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>,
Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
"Nanog@Nanog. Org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <011201c44ac8$6f107280$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I've not had any.. perhaps its a targeted marketing list, have you bought
similar services in the past? :)
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>
> Of course, this is not new on IRC, but it is new in SPAM.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
> To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
> Cc: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>; "Nanog@Nanog. Org"
> <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Site elimination service -:) - I received offer by 's'p'a'm'
>
>
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> >
> > > Ooo, a great idea. As a result - $60 for QA, plus a chance to catch a
> > > criminal -:). Just as _want to test network IDS - set up IRC, join it
> into
> > > EFNet, and here you are_.
> > >
> > > Generally speaking, I think it deserves attention (this adv.).
> >
> > You're assuming that this is something very new, but it has been going on
> > for long time on irc. If you knew right channel you can find people quite
> > willing to DoS somebody else for $$. That it moved to spam is unusual for
> > their types, but if you remember how many DoS attacks had been happening
> > to anti-spam sites and services, it is clear that spammers did pay some of
> > these criminals to do it. Probably the person responsible for this spam is
> > kind of middle-person who had been arranging things like this.
> >
> > One note is it could be interesting to know how many emails like that had
> > been sent and how targeted the audience may have been.
> >
> > --
> > William Leibzon
> > Elan Networks
> > william@elan.net
> >
>
>
