At 02:18 PM 11/29/00 +0000, Ken Brown wrote:
I was 99% sure that these posts were some sort of spam-scam, whose purpose I didn't quite get. (Am I falling for it by replying?) ... But what if, just what if, it is some crazy snoop trying to fish for illegal arms dealers? Are they that crass? Are they that imaginative? Do they really have that much time and money to play with? Are these the sort of people who have been so successful in getting Iraq to disarm?
I thought it was entertaining - usually we get kiddies trolling for how to make little b*mbs. This one's trolling for help in making really big ones :-) My opinions on where most of the abuse comes from range from - Kiddies who actually want to make b*mbs or other K00L Anarkey Stuff. Telling their ISPs or their moms is probably a good approach. - Kiddies who've got something scrawled on a virtual bathroom wall saying that it's fun to tweak the cypherpunks mailing list, kind of like kids share which grumpy old neighbor really gets torqued if you ring his doorbell and run away. - Cops, clueless or otherwise, trolling for business. Some of them may just be looking for kiddies, or some may actually think we're a worthwhile provocateur target. - Cypherpunks sending Hidden Stego Messages in the b*mb requests :-) - Variations on the "subscribe the cypherpunks list to lots of spam" guys. I suspect it's mainly the second group. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639