Ah. I feel *much* better now... For the time being, anyway. Cheers, Bob --- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:53:01 -0400 Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@ORCHARD.MEDFORD.MA.US> Subject: sprint pulled plug on cyberpromo.. To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Since this issue was brought up here a little while ago, it seems appropriate to forward this.. (NANOG is the "North American Network Operators Group"). Subject: Re: Cyberpromo.com spam snuffed? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:02:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Todd R. Stroup" <tstroup@tstroup.inhouse.compuserve.com> Reply-To: "Todd R. Stroup" <tstroup@tstroup.inhouse.compuserve.com> To: pferguso@cisco.com cc: nanog@merit.edu On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:
It appears that the infamous cyberpromo site has been disconnected.
- paul
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[snip] Cyberpromo is a suspect in sending mail from a host with the name and local domain of compuserve.com (the exact name of one of our mail gateways) They were creating fakeing mail headers by actually haveing a machine on their network with the same name and domain. I could have thought of more creative ways to do this but this is what we saw... Since were getting an influx of mail from upset individuals asking why CompuServe was the host of all this spam. After we found out what Cyberpromo was up to, we asked for cooperation from Sprint to pull the plug. At this time (and to my knowledge), CompuServe has not yet made an effort to engage in any legal action. I am unable to comment on anything else at this time. Todd R. Stroup Network Engineer - CompuServe --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/