dr@ripco.com (David Richards) wrote:

It appears that the domain 'cajones.com' is being abandoned due to the ^^^^^^^^^^^ massive forgery by spammers? No nameservers respond... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Enclosed is a spam recently received, through the open relay 'rio.bravo.net' from an IBM.NET dialup.

Note that the only body text in this spam is a URL that doesn't work because the spammer truncated the URL, and the complete url points to what appears to be a legitimate site, so he was probably trying to promote a personal home page or other sub-site on 'http://www.fcl.metronet.lib.mi.us/'

=== Spam with headers intact ===

From cajones.com!weijoro79 Fri Oct 31 22:58:42 1997 Return-Path: <weijoro79@cajones.com> Received: from rio.bravo.net (root@207.48.46.12) by XXXXX.ZZZZZ.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 1997 04:58:38 -0000 Received: from LOCALNAME (slip166-72-172-87.fl.us.ibm.net [166.72.172.87]) by rio.bravo.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) > with SMTP id WAA24372; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:32:27 -0600 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:32:27 -0600 From: weijoro79@cajones.com To: weijoro79@cajones.com Comments: Authenticated sender is <weijoro79@cajones.com> Errors-To: nobody@nowhere.com Subject: Create custom targeted e-mail address lists... Message-Id: <199711012578NAA22995@cajones.bravo.net>

http://www.fcl.metronet.lib.m

That's quite interesting. Spam is arriving with forged headers that attempt to implicate "cajones.com". That domain has quite a colorful history. According to InterNIC records, it's operated by Jeff Burchell, who is also the former operator of the defunct Huge Cajones Remailer which he operated as part of that domain. Along came Gary Burnore <gburnore@netcom.com>, CEO of DataBasix, who claimed that Jeff's remailer at cajones.com was being used to "forge" his e-mail address to Usenet articles. His only evidence was a few messages which happened to have a "cajones.com" message id in the headers, and they weren't even very convincing forgery attempts at that. Gary Burnore, Belinda Bryan <eridani@ix.netcom.com>, and William J. McClatchie (aka "Wotan") <wmcclatc@primenet.com> managed to harass Jeff sufficiently that he shut the remailer down. At the time, Burnore refused to concede the possibility that any "forgeries" of articles in his name might also have forged headers designed to implicate "cajones.com" as well. Rather he relied on the fact that Jeff kept no logs which could prove the innocence of himself and his remailer. Now the "cajones.com" domain is dead, and yet it's still showing up in forged headers! It looks like another of Gary Burnore's "shoot first and ask questions later" accusations has been cast into doubt. Unfortunately, it's probably too late to undo the disinformation campaign that he waged against Jeff Burchell and other remailer operators. -- Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. -- General William Westmoreland