At 8:25 PM -0500 2/17/03, Transistor Sister wrote: >bounced back to the originating host. The nature of the messages are so >varied that they may have been taken from a spam archive somewhere. One theory I've heard on this is that the script kiddies are using spam for DoS attacks under the (probably correct) assumption that if you report it to the relevant authorities they will dismiss it as "just being spam." This was from someone who had in fact tried to report such a DoS attack and received just that response. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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