Its not just Spam and DDOS anymore (was Re: OT: Re: User negligence?)

Mon Jul 28 18:43:43 UTC 2003

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:56:01AM +0000, Peter Gray wrote:

> On the subject of host security issues and spam, try doing a search of the 
> Usenet archive for '"Net Access Corporation" spam'.  You get 328 results.  
> And those are just the spams which people have traced to NAC, never mind 
> the millions of untraced ones....

The fact that their abusebot automatically forwards complaints to the
spammer^Wcustomer (even setting the 'From' address on the autoresponse
to the customer's address) may have something to do with this.

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