[9112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: We've been hit by the spammers, please have mercy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon May 5 20:48:08 1997
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 20:26:37 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: dhudes@graphnet.com (Dana Hudes)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <336E1251.7C903224@graphnet.com>
Do you have a copy of the spam itself with full headers?
I keep a lot of notes about these crooks and could cross-check.
-Barry Shein
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On May 5, 1997 at 13:01 dhudes@graphnet.com (Dana Hudes) wrote:
> Folks,
> Over the weekend someone decided to use our (Graphnet/globalis.net)
> mail server for sending spam. We are in the process of dealing with
> this and some internal network outages all at once. FYI, our mail server
> is running the very latest Solaris 2.5.1 + patches but the software
> is Netscape Mail server which replaces Sendmail with its very own. I
> thought they claimed it could not be used for transit mail but
> apparently either the claim was false or I misunderstood.
>
> Our small staff is strained to capacity working on these issues this
> monday morning. Please, stop sending mail to postmaster@graphnet.com and
> attacking us
> You are making the problem worse by flooding us with mail.
> Please do not blackhole us we have never been a problem before with
> this and thought we had taken preventative measures. Obviously these
> measures failed but we are working with Netscape to understand why their
> sendmail version allowed this to happen.
>
> Don't shoot me, I'm one of the good guys....
> We want to take action with law enforcement to find and prosecute the
> spammer for denial of service attacks and theft of services. Pointers
> to appropriate law enforcement agencies appreciated, also tips on
> tracking the source down. Ditto applicable NJ and US statutes. I assume
> not every spam comes from cyberpromo using one's server for transit
> mail.
>
> Dana Hudes
> Senior Network Engineer
> Graphnet
