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Subject: Re: Mail bombing made legal...
From: Richard Pouncy <prc @ Noah . rtscomp . com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 11:48:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: Greg Walker <greg @ trade-a-plane . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <33E5D2D5 . 61AF05DD @ trade-a-plane . com>

On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Greg Walker wrote:

Yes, I have been fighting this type of shit for sometime now.  What they
are doing is bounding the mail off sites like earthlink or at&t
to delivery the mail to your system.  I have been taking the message
header and forwarding that to abuse @
 companyname .
 com .
   You may or may not
know that must of the large ISP'es have a abuse account and will take
action if possible.

But it is assholes like the one mention in the message that keeps the bull
alive.

> Ron DuFresne wrote:
> 
> > SPECIAL CLOAKING DEVICE: Email Blaster can successfully hide the
> > origin of
> > all email being sent out. Email Blaster can mask itself to look like
> > it
> > came from the recipients own host.  This will help stop users from
> > flaming
> > your email box!
> >
> 
> Is this for real?  I have been getting hundreds of error messages from
> our mail server at night with the following cotent:
> 
>        Your message was not delivered because the destination computer
> was
>        not found.  Carefully check that it was spelled correctly and try
> 
>        sending it again if there were any mistakes.
> 
>            Host spamco.com not found
> 
>           The following recipients did not receive this message:
> 
>             <Bigspamdaddy @
 spamco .
 com>
> 
>        The original mail envelope addresses are:
> 
>        User-From: SMTP<>
>        Recipient: [<Bigspamdaddy @
 spamco .
 com>]
> 
> 
> Anybody have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg Walker
> TAP Publishing Company
> 

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