[faq-maintainers] Re: forged posts/Hipcrime attack/heads up

Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:34:16 -0400

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On Aug 16, 14:16, Eli the Bearded wrote:
} Subject: [faq-maintainers] forged posts
} I just got a bunch of auto-replies to posts I did not send. It seems
} that someone is doing something crazy. Note the presence of control
} and supersedes headers.

HipCrime sendsys/supersedes bombing. See news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
or news.admin.net-abuse.email for more detail. In a nutshell,
Hipcrime, John Grubor and various other idiots are issuing messages that
drop people's articles on the floor (supersede), and sendsys mailbombs
you at the same time. FAQs aren't being targetted specifically - he's
trying to wipe out whole groups.

In an attempt to bring this under control, I'm attempting to cancel all
of them - about 80,000 so far, and resurrect the articles they've dropped
on the floor.

The bot accidentally killed a few FAQs before I got the heuristics tuned
properly. My sincere apologies.

-- Chris Lewis, CyberSheriff (CBC says I am, so it must be true!)

For more information on spam, see http://spam.abuse.net/spam Fight spam, support Rep. Chris Smith's TCPA extension: http://www.cauce.org

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