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Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...

  • From: J.D. Falk
  • Date: Wed Jan 07 22:46:26 1998

On Jan 5, NetSurfer <[email protected]> wrote: 

> What about representing yourself to be from another domain (e.g. AOL.COM)
> so that the rejects/flames/etc. go to an innocent agent?  Isn't that a
> form of fraud?

	Yes, and both AOL and Compuserve have won civil court cases
	based on that.

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