[A little OT] Re: nobody @home

[Jon Stanley <nanog () rmrf net>]

This reminds me of the time that I got a call from Chris Morrow over at
UUNet around midnight one night - he informed me that one of our
customers customers (a dial-up user of all things) was spamming
inappropiate addresses with spam complaints, and not being too polite
about it either.  These people were fairly idiotic however, they did
absolutely nothing to hide their identity, they used the hotmail web
interface for cryin' out loud!  Which, in case you haven't looked at the
header of a geninue hotmail message, logs the originating IP.  They
also included the original message that they had received with full
header!! Now for the bad part.  This ISP had some transparent proxying 
going on, and therefore the originating IP was that of the proxy
server.  But they went back through the logs, and found that only
approximately 25 people had received this particular piece of
spam.  Unfortuantely, since it didn't happen again, we were never able to
catch the real perpetrator :-(.  

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Daniel L. Golding wrote:

> Great. Every NOC in the country has just been slashdotted, as well
> as this list. Some of the key suggestions posted on that fine forum
> include:
>
> 1) Calling the NOC (i.e. http://puck.nether.net/netops/ was posted as a
> link) if you have a problem as an individual user.
>
> 2) Launch DDOS attack on offending ISPs
>
> 3) Post emails to NANOG to find clueful network engineer types, to help
> you with your email problems. 
>
> Needless to say, prepare for calls and emails from some "E1it3
> Dud3Z". After all, they read it on Slashdot... :)
>
> Oh well, information wants to be free.
>
> Daniel Golding                           NetRail,Inc.
> "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"
>
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Philippe Landau wrote:
>
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/19/081222&mode=thread
> > Contacting Network Admins Of Large Internet Companies?
> >
> > kind regards     philippe, http://InternetRoot.com/