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Subject: Re: Forged subscriptions resume
From: "Gess Shankar" <gess @ earthchannel . com>
Organization: Earth Channel Communications LLC
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 17:49:12 -0500
To: List-Managers @ greatcircle . com, Bonnie Scott <bonnie @ staff . prodigy . com>
Cc: majordomo-owner @ listserv . prodigy . com
Comments: Authenticated sender is <gess@ec3.earthchannel.com>
In-reply-to: <199703271500.KAA30520@prawn.fishy.net>
Reply-to: gess @ earthchannel . com

On 27 Mar 97 at 10:00, Bonnie Scott wrote:

> My morning is similar:
> newnet-list-request@eskimo.com
> majordomo@beyondirc.net
> were subscribed to all lists, AND your victims also made an
> appearance: 
> 
  <snip>

> It looks like they are gearing up for an info-bombing attack, but it
> hasn't started yet.  Has anyone contacted the victims to make sure
> it was an attack?
> 

And more and more names are turning up. These are from smtp.gte.net
(but apparently originating from dial-access.att.net like most of them
are). 

From: firewall@labcenter.cl.pusan.ac.kr
From: lachico@aol.com
From: juseok@white.xtel.com
From: ljsuk@hyundai.hdec.co.kr

I tried to contact a couple who were being repeatedly subscribed, but 
got mailbox full/quota exceeded type of bounces. So obviously the 
perpetrators are succeeding in their attack.

Gess

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Gess Shankar                                pax vobiscum                         
gess@earthchannel.com        http://www.earthchannel.com
Earth Channel Communications, LLC. 
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