ibm.net subscriber faking mail/subscriptions to list (was: Re: hmm..)

Tue Nov 18 01:34:09 UTC 1997

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Tim Harrison wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, James D. Butt wrote:
> 
> > Is it just me or..
> > 
> > I just received 2 "Welcome to nanog" messages and then this...a bounce.. 
> > Is someone playing with us?
> 
> I just got a whole bunch more too.  nanog being subscibed to different
> mailing lists.
> 
> Someone *is* playing with us.

Someone from slip166-72-5-121.il.us.ibm.net is faking subscribe requests
and mail to the list, as shown clearly in the
marilyn at mozart.lib.uchicago.edu subscription and the billg at microsoft.com
forgery.  They are almost certainly behind the other items as well.  If
you dislike this, contact ibm.net.

Please let's not have a huge thread of "me too!"s.