OT: Interesting email I received

Fri Feb 1 21:57:46 UTC 2002

* goemon at anime.net (Dan Hollis) [Fri 01 Feb 2002, 22:29 CET]:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:35:32 -0700 Daniel Lark <dlark at elmresources.com> wrote:
>>> Geez... Can they paint a bigger target on themselves?
>> don't jump to conclusions; it might be a joe-job. wait-and-see is indicated.
> Did you, uh.. *cough*... look at their web page?

Just tried to; HTTP connections time out, traceroute ends in * * *.

Luckily it's been archived for posterity and still available here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020123192839/http://www.national-isp.org/

Quoting some text from there:
| National ISP Company is a business class BULK EMAIL INTERNET SERVICE
| PROVIDER, (ISP).  Your high volume email ads are sent directly from
| our servers to your recipients.
[..]
| Our ONLY business is providing Internet Access for your email sending.

If it's a joe job, it's a particularly well-executed one, also defacing
the website and eradicating all traces of another company that legitly
used that IP space...

Regards,

	-- Niels.

-- 
"The Internet is totally out of control, impossible to map accurately,
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