Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...

J.D. Falk jdfalk at priori.net
Thu Jan 8 03:42:55 UTC 1998


On Jan 5, NetSurfer <netsurf at sersol.com> wrote: 

> What about representing yourself to be from another domain (e.g. AOL.COM)
> so that the rejects/flames/etc. go to an innocent agent?  Isn't that a
> form of fraud?

	Yes, and both AOL and Compuserve have won civil court cases
	based on that.

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