AT&T Broadband UseNet leak

Tue May 28 01:06:09 UTC 2002

ATT wanted to inform their customers of upcoming USENET server changes.  A
decision was made to post a message to all USENET groups on their local
server only.

The engineer responsible for this task made a minor syntactical typo and the
posting went global.

Oops.

They are well aware of the error, and are taking steps to make sure it does
not happen again.

No more abuse complaints are necessary.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Sameer R. Manek
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 1:48 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: AT&T Broadband UseNet leak

It appears that attbi have leaked out, what essentially is spam to non attbi
customers, who read usenet.

Below is the headers. Did attbi recently become green card/immigration
lawyers recently? No idea who to report this to, sending this to abuse@ will
obviously do little, other then help someone's ticket close metrics.

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Sameer R. Manek                                   Email: manek at ghur.net
"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."
 --Isadora Duncan
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Path:
newsmaster1.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsfeed1.
earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!dca6-feed2.news.
algx.net!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.n
et!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!cyclon
e1.we.ipsvc.net!cyclone.mw.ipsvc.net!news.mw.ipsvc.net!typhoon.mw.ipsvc.net.
POSTED!no-remote.post
Newsgroups: alt.autos.toyota.trucks
Subject: Important information regarding your usenet service
From: customer.support at broadband.att.com
Lines: 40
Message-ID: <bkwH8.389$uh4.76 at typhoon.mw.ipsvc.net>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:16:23 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.131.1.118
X-Complaints-To: abuse at attbi.net
X-Trace: typhoon.mw.ipsvc.net 1022267783 24.131.1.118 (Fri, 24 May 2002
15:16:23 EDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:16:23 EDT
Xref: stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net alt.autos.toyota.trucks:32375
X-Received-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:32:04 PDT
(newsmaster1.news.pas.earthlink.net)

On June 6th, 2002 AT&T Broadband will restructure the configuration of the
servers, which provide access to Usenet newsgroups.

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