From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 22:31:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA14053 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 22:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp010-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA14047; Thu, 1 May 1997 22:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA04759; Thu, 1 May 1997 22:24:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199705020524.WAA04759@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: SPAM target In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "May 1, 97 09:17:41 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 22:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, tom@sdf.com, jgrosch@sirius.com, chuckr@mat.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh said: >In message <19970501193004.42591@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> John-Mark >Gurney writes: >: > Not likely. AGIS is the current home of Cyber Promotions, and actively >: > defends their activities. >: >: sounds like we need to send a message to MCI and see if they won't do >: any thing about it... of course we can always to a class action >: suit... and each of us get $500 for each posting to each list.. :) > >don't count on it. I know of at least three machines in the >cyberpromo domain that are sending BIFF packets to our subnet every >time they get a mail message. The village has been hit with hundreds >of thousands of these things over the last several months. We've >tried everything we can think of to make them stop, and still they >keep coming. > >Ideas? Can we call the DA or the FBI for a DoS attack? > >Warner > If you can produce proof of this I would suggest you/we call FBI. This is against the law and it do my heart good to see these bozo twisting in the wind. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@sirius.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses