From: "Joshua M. Sled" <jsled@eis.calstate.edu> Subject: Re: Remailer@jpunix.com down!!!???
On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, Samuel Kaplin wrote:
I just read that the remailer at jpunix.com went down suddenly and permanently. Anyone know what happened?? I also believe the whole site is down as it didn't answer my pings a couple of days ago.
He was getting spam from AOL at the rate of 25 messages every 5 seconds... so he took the system down.
I missed the specifics of this the first time. How was the spammer doing it? Obviously he wasn't chaining his mail, or there'd be no way to know he was from AOL. Was JP unable to determine the guy's actual address? Or was he posting in the clear sans anonymity? Sorry if this has been covered already. I remember seeing the incident mentioned, but I can't recall the explanation of why JP was powerless to do anything about it. Thanks. --Dave.