[613] in Cypherpunks
Re: Questionable instances?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Thomas)
Wed May 26 10:58:17 1993
Date: Wed, 26 May 93 10:46:51 EDT
From: jthomas@kolanut.mitre.org (Joe Thomas)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Paul Ferguson <fergp@sytex.com> writes:
>
> On Wed, 26 May 93 2:18:52 CDT,
> Peter Meyer <uunet!cactus.org!wixer!wixer.bga.com!meyer> wrote -
>
> > My previous message to cypherpunks, the one which had
> > subject heading "AT&T" and which began:
> > "I recently switched my long distance carrier from AT&T to another,
> > since they bribed me to do so with an offer of $35."
> > seemed to be posted OK (it apparently came back to me as expected)
> > but I also got this funny bounce message:
>
> >From attmail.com!uucp@cactus.org Tue May 25 23:37:59 1993
>
> [ remainder of header deleted ]
>
> > This seems odd. What's going on? Do all messages with "AT&T" in the
> > subject line get siphoned off somewhere for review? Did this one
> > generate a bounce message because the account of Bryan Petty, AT&T spy,
> > wasn't receiving tonight? OK, I'm just paranoid. (Paranoia - that's
> > your state of mind when you finally realize what's really going on.)
>
> At least I'm not the only one who has recently noticed this. I had to
> do a double take when I received not only my original post on UUNet
> questions from cypherpunks-request@taod.com, but I received a second
> copy with this header:
>
> >From uunet!attmail.com!uucp Wed May 26 03:18:15 1993
> Return-Path: <uunet!attmail.com!uucp>
> Received: from uunet by sytex.com with uucp
> (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0nyFkc-00018yC; Wed, 26 May 93 03:18 EDT
> Received: from att.att.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP
> (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA03910; Wed, 26 May 93 00:17:42
> -0400
> Message-Id: <9305260417.AA03910@relay2.UU.NET>
> From: uunet!attmail.com!uucp
> Date: 25 May 93 20:11:10 GMT
> To: sytex.com!fergp
> Report-Version: 2
> Received: by /C=US/AD=ATTMAIL;Wed May 26 04:08:57 -0000 1993
> Received: by /C=US/AD=ATTMAIL/PD=DCA;Tue May 25 20:11:10 GMT 1993
> Confirming-Mts-Message-Id: </C=US/AD=ATTMAIL;internet1460407000>
> Confirming-Ua-Content-Id: <ternet1460407000>
> Original-Date: Wed May 26 04:07:00 GMT 1993
> Not-Delivered-To: mhs!dca/G=bryan/S=petty/OU=dcaicc due to 01 Invalid
> Address Specification ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Content-Type: message
> Message-Version: 2
> From: internet!sytex.com!fergp/G=Paul/S=Ferguson
> UA-Content-ID: <internet1460407000>
> End-of-Header:
> EMail-Version: 2
> Subject: Just the facts, ma'am.
> UA-Message-ID: <internet1460407000>
> To: internet!toad.com!cypherpunks
> To: internet!sytex.com!jim
> End-of-Protocol:
> Content-Type: text
> Content-Length: 6419
>
> [suspicions deleted]
I got one, too. Doesn't look too sinister to me. Somebody named Bryan Petty
must have dropped his attmail account without unsubscribing from the list, and
attmail's gateway sending is the bounces back to the original poster. Another
attmail subsriber was getting a feed of comp.org.eff.talk by mail a while back.
When his mailbox got full, anyone who posted to c.o.e.t. would get a message
like this one. Apparently, they never fixed the broken gateway software.
Joe
