North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: We've been hit by the spammers, please have mercy
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 Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 On May 5, 1997 at 13:01 [email protected] (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 [email protected] 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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