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Got it too and your theory is correct. At least they were apologetic when I called to ream them ;) | Derek Elder V.P., Network Operations| | [email protected] 888-637-3638 Ext. 21 | On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Daniel Simms wrote: > > 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. > > - --- begin original message --- > >From [email protected] Thu Nov 7 14:40:23 1996 > Received: from arya.solgate.com ([email protected] [206.53.106.1]) by alink.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20969 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:40:19 -0800 > Received: from usmani.solgate.com (usmani.solgate.com [206.53.106.8]) by arya.solgate.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA17352 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:21:03 -0600 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:21:03 -0600 > Message-Id: <[email protected]> > X-Sender: [email protected] > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] (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: [email protected] > > 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 > - --- (truncted) end of original message --- > > > > -- > Daniel Simms "A common mistake that people make when trying to design > [email protected] something completely foolproof [is] to underestimate the > (408) 720-6161 ingenuity of complete fools" -Ford Prefect > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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