(Fwd) Re: Bad Idea

[Adam Breaux]

Good News Folks!!
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As far as I can tell, cypherpunks wasn't subscribed to anything. What
happened instead was someone started forging email in the name of the
list's submission address to various of my mailbots, which simply send
an informational e-mail back.

If they HAD spammed it onto a list, it'd be easier,b ecause I have some
anti-spamming stuff  in place, plus full logging on where requests come
from. I haven't had that on the mailbots before now, because nobody's
done this before that i know of. Guess I'm spending the next few days
closing this loophole...

Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll clean this up as soon as I can, or at
least get logging in place to see where it's coming from, because
honestly, this one's a tough one to fix without just shutting down the
services.

And frankly, if someone's starting to use mailbots to spam, lists are
in big trouble, because there are zillions of those out there. Most
systems, for instance, have "info at xxxxx" addresses, all of which would
do exactly what my mailbots are doing.



chuq

At 5:23 PM -0800 12/26/96, admin at veracruz.net wrote:
>This service is a bad idea...it has been used to e-mail bomb the
>mailing list cypherpunks at toad.com. There was no verification message
>to make sure we wanted to be on this service. Please make an effort to
>correct this immediately.
>
>
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>This record generated from address: "206.205.234.41".
>This record generated at "6:22:00 PM" on "Thursday, December 26, 1996".
>
>The browser is "Mozilla/3.01 (Win95; I)" browser.
>The referrer was
>"http://www.plaidworks.com/NetForms.acgi$/ListAdmin/submit.fdml".


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