-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Perry E. Metzger writes:
"Adam Pingitore" writes:
I've got news for you all. This 'jerk' was spammed by some ass out there. I've canceled by subscription so would you all quit whining already. Sorry if I sent you people inappropriate mail, but I just wasn't very happy getting 2000 e-mails a day.
[ Mr. Metzger's amusing flame elided. ]
I run a small mailing list that has been subject to problems similar to the recent spate of "unscrives". Apparently there is a list of mailing lists circulating the warez boards along with scripts for spoofing subscription requests. Over the past few months my list has periodically received batches of bogus subscriptions for accounts ranging from Fidonet sysops to Al Gore to random AOL users. Email from other mailing list admins indicates that these same accounts, perhaps two hundred in all, were subscribed to several hundred lists. Crypto relevance: This attack will be eliminated when more mail agents support public key crypto and the mailing list software can be modified to check signatures on subscription requests. pjm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQEVAwUBMXXU22AA81GB0e9dAQEjowf9EpmBXt3smBCduo3QF6/FLRRsC7NX65Ew 7jDI48XO9BWCOTXwwsFgibGgvefjtRKosB77SgeOy0q8QbukWjO8SXzqmQBSH3hK MBbP6Z1HVlP29KkyVpuWf9RAdsFMYGRuUjrFBNsc+ohpztW75MXvBkqHX7jGEk9K fpmTfQv8TRyygjNR8bqiAXGWMP3OWq/gIO27ydCDG8+7czzqcCX6/JiGsYdH8ns5 sBAPe5oJsm15at4i8khNtpNbf/+JTm6cS+TTAhQLaBTxmdxUDAa/zQlxeevSsrfl sBo9fRF+IgU4v9Zw7BSDcc4E3FKCjpZ39PXLfW+QPH7WBPu9hRjQVw== =4GcH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----