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Re: Please relax for just a moment,

Brian Lloyd <brian@lloyd.com> Tue, 10 October 1995 20:48 UTC

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From: Brian Lloyd <brian@lloyd.com>
Subject: Re: Please relax for just a moment,
Comments: To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@MAIL.MSEN.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list ISN-WG <ISN-WG@unmvma.unm.edu>

>On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Brian Lloyd wrote:
>
>> If you look at the headers on the original message you will see that the
>> offending message was generated from what appears to be a port on a
>> terminal server.  The message was delivered to a machine named
>> bud.indirect.com and then forwarded to bob.indirect.com.  The destination
>> address to which an interested party is supposed to reply is
>> travel@indirect.com.  The common thread here is "indirect.com".
>>
>>
>
>The addresses for the terminal server and bud were identical.  The time the
>message was generated was less than one hour after the last time 'travel'
>had logged on to the system, so it's a good bet he was still on at the time
>it was sent also making it a high probability that he did indeed send it.
>Only the admin at indirect.com knows for sure.
>
>Because of the type of list server this is on, it can easily be spammed with
>a UseNet news server.  If 'travel' spammed from UseNet, the postmaster at
>Indirect is REALLY busy right now; mailbombing's a bit extreme, especially
>if they're already getting 100's of complaints [which is mailbombing in
>itself]!

Oh, I know!  :^)   I figured that I would wait a bit longer than the 4
hours that I originally stated (this is not a real high priority for me).

BTW, the mail to travel@indirect.com bounced.  Either it was bogus to begin
with or the sysadmin there decided to squash the inbound mail right off the
bat.

>
>Vince.
>
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>Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH    Email: vev@msen.com     Flame mail: /dev/null
>             220+ Coordinator Michigan Area Repeater Council
>                MSEN.COM is NOT the Microsoft Network!!
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