Re: Apology -let this die

From: Shane Moseley (smoseley@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 09:37:35 EST


Ohm347@aol.com wrote:

> <harshness deleted>

>
> chill out frank. 1100+ emails would take forever to send out unless you had
> a program to bulk mail it. there is no way some body would sit there and
> send one message after another exactly the same and get them all to show up
> at the DML at the same time like that. this was an act of someone who had
> the software to pull such a prank. his "friend" would have needed minutes to
> pull it off.
> we can't prove he did it. he can't prove he didn't do it. he said he was
> sorry and it wouldn't happen again. that's it. it's over.
> and if it ever happens again we can all drive our daks over to his house and
> break his hands into little pieces.
> nuff said?
> derek

As someone stated earlier - something as simple as a little script to send smtp
commands would be trivial to write even in 5 to 10 minutes that could not only
fire off any number of email to anywhere - but also spoof the sender. Headers
would still have the sending smtp servers signatures as well as the actual ip
headers having the originating source ip address. Even bouncing off an anonymous
remailer would retain the ip headers.

I really think Aaron is sincere in his apology tho - just my $.02 on the matter.

Latr,

Shane

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