Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny

Mike Goumans (mgoumans@nrt.net)
Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:10:30 -0500 

On Jan 12, 10:55, Mike Leber wrote:
> Subject: Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Unfortunately, this culprit has been operating in hit and run mode for a
> while, and has made good on his threats but not exactly how you might
> think.  I am going to stick to calling him the "culprit" for liability
> reasons.  Bear with me, there are some serious lessons at the end.
>
> The culprit had a free web page at joes.com from Joe Doll advertising
> "Hair Tonic" or some such.  Joe Doll has a no spam policy.  The culprit
> then did a spam to promote his page and Joe pulled it.  The culprit then
> emailed a threatening note to Joe Doll requesting his page be restored.
> Joe Doll then recieved a second note notifying Joe of a pending revenge
> spam of 1 million emails.
>
> On Friday Morning, January 3rd we started receiving a continuous stream of
> phone calls complaining of a spam from joes.com (subject "El Cheapo...").
> Somebody using an ibm.net dialup connection was sending out a barrage of
> spam in Joe Doll's name forged to appear from joe@joes.com and writen to
> be flame bait.
>-- End of excerpt from Mike Leber
Hrm. I feel a little stupid for sending mail back myself. I beleive it was the
im a spammer and you cant do anything about it and if you dont like just delete
the email because you cant stop me (or something to that effect) that got
everyone set off.




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