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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Update on mail bombing threats--words fail me--enjoy the laugh
I posted recently about a recent mailbombing threat apparently originating from Cyberpromo. Many of you may have received this, but I must share it for those who haven't seen it...the specter of Cyberpromo being victimized by Nasty Evil Spammers had me laughing so hard tears ran down my face and my ribs hurt. Howard ------ Received: from cyber3.7.nostoppingittop ([email protected][206.154.151.19]) by mail.clark.net (8.7.3/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA24805 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:51:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (from [email protected]) by cyber3.7.nostoppingittop (8.7.4/8.7.3) id UAA05715; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:53:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:53:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] (Mail AutoResponder) To: "howard c. berkowitz" <[email protected]> Subject: RESPONSE FROM CYBERPROMO Version 1-4-97: Cyber Promotions has recently terminated several accounts for abuse of our policies. (Updated TOS at end of message). Cyber Promotions will not tolerate irresponsible commercial email activities. The following email accounts have been *recently TERMINATED... *[email protected] 1-4-97: Spamming with THREATS! [email protected] 10-9-96: Forgery and spamming INTERNET [email protected] "" "" "" "" "" "" [email protected] Non-existant account. The account was forged by the people who opened the accounts above. [email protected] 10-8-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-30-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-28-96: Forgeries [email protected] 9-28-96: Forgeries [email protected] 9-28-96: Forgeries [email protected] 9-27-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-27-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-19-96: FORGED unsolicited email, making it appear that Cyberpromo's auto-sender was responsible. If you are in receipt of the message, please look through the headers and complain to the appropriate postmasters. networke[email protected] 9-17-96: Ignored remove requests [email protected] 9-17-96: Ignored remove requests [email protected] 9-17-96: Ignored remove requests [email protected] 9-17-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-17-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-17-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] 9-16-96: Unsolicited ads to INTERNET addresses [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] "" "" "" "" [email protected] 8-28: Massive abuse to INTERNET addresses / FORGERY [email protected] 8-28: Massive abuse to INTERNET addresses / FORGERY [email protected] 8-27: excessive abuse to AOL / removals ignored [email protected] 8-27: excessive abuse / all removals ignored [email protected] 8-27: "" "" "" "" "" "" [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cyber Promotions is *not* in business to annoy people. We are in the business of sending (and assisting in sending) commercial (and noncommercial) email to people who are *not* offended by the receipt of these messages. Unfortunately, due to many experiences (many of which were out of our control) we have had some problems accomplishing our goals without upsetting some people. We are truly sorry about that fact, and we plan to "clean up the streets" as best as we can. Some people have been under the impression that all email that appears to come from cyberpromo.com, is from Cyber Promotions. That is not true. Most of the complaints that we have recently received have been in reaction to people who have "autoresponders" and "virtual email addresses" on our system. In that case, their mail would have referenced an account on our system, but originated from a different site. Unfortunately, software like Pegasus enables their mail to appear as if it came from us, directly. But, their true origination is still evident in the headers. You can determine where it originated if you know how to decode headers. But when doing so, remember that Pegasus, for example, actually logs into *our* sendmail. At this time, the only messages that originate from Cyber Promotions, use our proprietary Cyber Sender 5.0+ protocol which will always be indicated in the organization: header. Due to these "look alikes," it could appear that recipients' remove request were being ignored. WE DO NOT IGNORE REMOVE REQUESTS. Please note: we have no control over mail that originates from other sites, that travel through our SMTP (relay-host) servers. We will simply terminate any accounts that we maintain, that is referred to in their abusive mail. ATTENTION PRODIGY MEMBERS: It has come to Cyber Promotions' attention, that some of you are having a major problem removing yourselves from our lists. This can be attributed to the "alias" that your outgoing mail may contain. If you are having problems, please send an email to [email protected] and type both of your email addresses in the body of the message, each on its own line, without any comments. The subject line is ignored. You probably have one address like xaz[email protected] and another address like [email protected] ATTENTION PIPELINE MEMBERS: It has come to Cyber Promotions' attention, that some of you are having a major problem removing yourselves from our lists. This can be attributed to the "alias" that your outgoing mail may contain. If you are having problems, please send an email to [email protected] and type your email addresses in the body of the message, each on its own line, without any comments. The subject line is ignored. You should type your email id followed by the following THREE domains. @usa.pipeline.com, @pipeline.com, @nyc.pipeline.com. Even if you feel that your address is definately only one of the three possibilities, you should still remove all three addresses (each on its own line). ATTENTION INTERNET USERS: It has come to Cyber Promotions' attention, that some of you are having a major problem removing yourselves from our lists. This can be attributed to the "alias" that your outgoing mail may contain. If you are having problems, please send an email to [email protected] and type your email addresses in the body of the message, each on its own line, without any comments. The subject line is ignored. If your email address could contain an alias like mail.domain.com or if you may have more that one email address that points to another email address, you should remove them all. If you wish to remove *every* email address in your domain, please contact us, and we will "grep" out every possibility. REVISED TERMS OF SERVICE: 1. We do not allow postings to inappropriate newsgroups with reference to your account because such postings result in *MUCH* more negative response than positive. 2. We prohibit the advertising of offensive material (ie. pornography, weapons, etc). 3. You may not use the account to participate in illegal activities. 4. Our TOS strictly prohibits the sending of mass commercial emails to INTERNET addresses, unless expressed permission has been granted to you by the recipient. In addition, you *must* honor all requests for removal from your mailing list in a diligent manner. Our service can be used in conjunction with advertisements that you place with a bulk email company other than your own or us, as long as they follow the same guidelines. 5. Cyber Promotions reserves the right to terminate any account for any reason at any time, without notice. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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