Re: malicious mirroring of list

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 08:38:40 MST


Yesterday there was a spat of triple and quadruple posting of messages,
with the repeats being sent from tick.javien.com. I figured it was
either another episode of either someone screwing up their mail server
or else another episode of intentional list spamming. I'm curious as to
the type of bug or mistake that would have caused that.

David McFadzean wrote:
>
> > tick.javien.com ([209.115.238.117]) is mirroring the list to the
> > subscribers. I suggest action be taken.
>
> tick.javien.com is another name for mail.extropy.org, in other words
> the ExI mailing lists are hosted there. What seems to be the problem?
>
> --
> David McFadzean
> VP Technology, Javien Canada Inc.
> http://www.javien.com
>



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