RE: Any news on www.kievonline.org site?

[John.Airey () rnib org uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Wray [mailto:steve.wray () paradise net nz]
> Sent: 14 October 2003 10:11
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Any news on www.kievonline.org site?
>
>
> Hi all,
> today I found a really wierd email in my inbox,
> which got me curious about this kievonline.org
> that this guy is screaming about (I had never heard of
> it before. I may be an 'infidel' not being moslem
> but they guy has my skintone and drinking habits all wrong!)
>
> When I go to the site, it has a very sad look to it...
> Apparently it was taken down by 'infidels'.
>
> So far in my googling I havn't found anything about
> the site.
>
> Ring any bells with anyone? 
>
> Thanks!

I got one of these too. It's either someone harvesting email addresses (eg
from the Full-Disclosure public archives). I also received a welcome message
with a picture attached (even though I have to use evil Outlook, I use
Zone-Alarm to prevent it talking to anything outside our LAN).

Although it does look like a genuine abusive message, it lacks both the name
of the person it's sent to and who it's from. If I was going to insult
someone, I'd at least use their name. Also, the email headers make it look
like it's come through some cable modem connection, rather than direct from
kievonline.org:

Received: from fl.24.96.20.54.cablemodem.gte.net
(fl.24.96.20.54.cablemodem.gte.net [24.96.20.54])

All I've done is reply to it to inform the person that the address was being
used to send abusive email.

- 
John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE
Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the
Blind,
Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey () rnib org uk 

Political correctness - a modern day tool to confuse the minds of the
unwary.

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