Cyberpromo.com spam snuffed?

Sat Oct 19 06:33:45 UTC 1996

cyberpromo may have had their own site disconnected -- but they're still
practicing their arrogant ways.  They surreptiously used our system
on Thursday to spam compuserve and aol, as well as prodigy.  The
plethora of bad email addresses brought our server to its knees for
some time.

We're planning on seeking damages and taking them to court if they don't 
compensate us for the trouble that they caused.

I believe that we're also going to name the original client of cyberpromo
as well -- a hardware house in california, as well as carnival cruises --
just to make the pain felt and spread to the business community the 
news of what's going on.  Not sure on that one.

If anyone else here was a victim of cyber, let me know.

> From owner-nanog at merit.edu  Fri Oct 18 20:26:56 1996
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:02:17 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Todd R. Stroup" <tstroup at tstroup.inhouse.compuserve.com>
> To: pferguso at cisco.com
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Cyberpromo.com spam snuffed?
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> 
> > It appears that the infamous cyberpromo site has been disconnected.
> >
> > - paul
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> [snip]
> 
> Cyberpromo is a suspect in sending mail from a host with the name and
> local domain of compuserve.com (the exact name of one of our mail
> gateways)  They were creating fakeing mail headers by actually haveing a
> machine on their network with the same name and domain.  I could have
> thought of more creative ways to do this but this is what we saw... Since
> were getting an influx of mail from upset individuals asking why
> CompuServe was the host of all this spam.  After we found out what
> Cyberpromo was up to, we asked for cooperation from Sprint to pull the
> plug.
> 
> At this time (and to my knowledge), CompuServe has not yet made an effort
> to engage in any legal action.  I am unable to comment on anything
> else at this time.
>  
> Todd R. Stroup
> Network Engineer - CompuServe
> 
> 
> 