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Big Bertha Thing burster
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/gammaray.html 
16K Web Page
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.seti

Gamma Ray Bursters

 v1.0 
 01 feb 2000
 Greg Goebel 
 public domain 

Contents List:-
1.THE DISCOVERY OF GRBS
2.PINPOINTING A GRB
3.CAUGHT IN THE ACT
4.COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY


Big Bertha Thing publication

The statistics for Big Bertha Thing postings published
on sci.astro are as follows:-

20 No. 50K primary postings   (out of 26)
 2 No. 600K    ditto          (out of 4)
12 No. off-topic postings     (out of 200)
 4 No. 50K secondary postings (out of 26)
20 No. 4K      ditto          (out of 26)
20 No. 2K      ditto          (out of 26)
24 No. astronomical postings  (out of 2000)

There was almost zero response to the above, which were
spread over 28 days, at the rate of two days per week.

Book-burners deleted the archive of Net Access Policy
postings prior to 2nd November 1998. Bertha saved those,
with the exception of replies and published 12.

The above were also posted to the Onenet conference
Astronomy & Space. Here days 18, 19, 20, were minimal
keep-off-the-grass days and on days 27 and 28 they
broke ranks. The on-topic filibuster of sound-bite
journalism ended, at 42 days old.
(The beginning of the end of spam.)
Thank you,
Tony Lance
tonylance@big-bertha-thing.com


Big Bertha Thing corporate

1.  What happened to the guys on the most wanted list?
2.  Corporate America opened fire with an industrial
      strength denial of service attack.
3.  It was complete with worm virus.
4.  150K mailbox postings.
5.  Daily basis.
6.  Unlimited smtp mailboxes and names.
7.  Ownership of smtp mailbox provider.
8.  This is a proprietorial interest in Usenet newsgroup
     postings.
9.  Big Bertha is now on the list.
10. A sustainable defense would be nice.
11. When the guns fall silent, the battle will be over.
12. There were enough shells for 42 months, without
     recycling.


Big Bertha Thing binary

The defense is of course binary; the old one two.
You need two filters.
The first blocks mailbox entry and strips out the from
mailbox address, for disclosure. 
It uses mailbox address or sufix to select postings.
The second uses partial strings.
Any portion of the mailbox address or subject line to
  select postings.
It flags them as deleted and moves them to the trashcan.
The trashcan auto-deletes before the mailbox fills up.
Lastly you need vacation auto-reply and a mailing list,
  with an smtp mailbox.
The replies from auto reply tell you which mailboxes are
  closed.
The mailing list replies confirms which mailboxes are open.

NB There may be another case with the same protaganist:- 
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e10cd57.0311261707.35b8cf51%40posting.google.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain


Big Bertha Thing spamlock

One of the filters used includes the hosts shown as listed below.
 1. These might be forgeries.
 2. These might be global players carrying out denial of service attacks,
      on newsgroup users, to further corporate aims.
 3. Each mailbox is one-way; it can send mail, but not receive it.
 4. To control the attack, some mailboxes need to be two-way.
 5. Microsoft.com was once on the two-way list, but seems to have thought better of it.
 6. Aol.com was once on the two-way list, but seems to have thought better of it.
 7. Yahoo.com is still on the two-way list.
 8. Forgers do not ever think better of it.
 9. This list was first compiled in January 2004.
10. The attack has now stopped, after 12 months.
11. This is one month after disclosure of mailbox logs, on usenet.
12. Denial of service attacks are illegal, so what is the FBI doing about it
      beyond prevarication?
13. The number of two-way mailboxes has been reduced to three major players.
14. Two of them are mentioned above. (Possibly all three.)
15. Microsoft in their recent unsuccessfull proposal, wanted the internet to
      use their patented software for identification of mailboxes. (Anti-open source) See
link:-
http://www.circleid.com/article/855_0_1_0_C/

List is as follows;-
advisor.com
advisor.net
advisor.ms.com
advisor_ms.com 
advisor.ms.net
advisor_ms.net  
advisor.msn.com
advisor_msn.com 
advisor.msn.net 
advisor_msn.net 
advisor.msdn.com
advisor_msdn.com 
advisor.msdn.net 
advisor_msdn.net 
advisor.microsoft.net
advisor_microsoft.net 
advisor.microsoft.com 
advisor_microsoft.com  
america.net
america.com 
aol.net
aol.com
bigfoot.net
bigfoot.com
bulletin.msdn.com
bulletin_msdn.com 
bulletin.msdn.net
bulletin_msdn.net 
bulletin.ms.com
bulletin.ms.net 
bulletin_ms.com 
bulletin_ms.net
bulletin.msn.com
bulletin_msn.com 
bulletin.msn.net
bulletin_msn.net 
bulletin.net
bulletin.com
bulletin.microsoft.net
bulletin_microsoft.net 
bulletin.microsoft.com
bulletin_microsoft.com
confidence.com
confidence.net
confidence.msn.com
confidence.msn.net 
confidence_msn.net 
confidence_msn.com
confidence_ms.com
confidence_ms.net 
confidence.ms.com
confidence.ms.net 
confidence_msdn.com
confidence_msdn.net 
confidence.msdn.com
confidence.msdn.net 
confidence_microsoft.com
confidence.microsoft.com 
confidence_microsoft.net
confidence.microsoft.net 
freemail.com 
freemail.net 
microsoft.net
microsoft.com
msnews.microsoft.com 
ms29.hinet.net
ms31.hinet.net
ms33.hinet.net
ms35.hinet.net
ms39.hinet.net
ms40.hinet.net
ms41.hinet.net
ms45.hinet.net
msa.hinet.net
netmail.net
netmail.com            Major two-way mailbox player.
news.com
news.net
news.ms.com
news_ms.com 
news.ms.net
news_ms.net
news.msn.net
news_msn.net
news_msn.com
news.msn.com
news.msdn.com
news.msdn.net 
news_msdn.net 
news_msdn.com
news.microsoft.net
news_microsoft.net 
news_microsoft.com
news.microsoft.com
newsletters.ms.net
newsletters_ms.net 
newsletters.ms.com
newsletters_ms.com 
newsletters.msn.com
newsletter.msn.com 
newsletters.msn.net 
newsletters_msn.net 
newsletters_msn.com
newsletters.msdn.com
newsletters_msdn.com 
newsletters.msdn.net
newsletters_msdn.net 
newsletters.com
newsletters.net 
newsletters_microsoft.net
newsletters.microsoft.net
newsletters.microsoft.com      Major two-way mailbox player.
newsletters_microsoft.com  
puremail.net
puremail.com 
rocketmail.com 
rocketmail.net
support.com
support.net
support.ms.net
support_ms.net 
support.ms.com 
support_ms.com 
support_msn.net
support.msn.net 
support_msn.com
support.msn.com 
support.msdn.com
support_msdn.com 
support.msdn.net 
support_msdn.net 
support.microsoft.com
support_microsoft.com 
support.microsoft.net 
support_microsoft.net 
technet.ms.com
technet_ms.com 
technet_ms.net 
technet.ms.net 
technet.com
technet.net 
technet.msdn.com
technet_msdn.com
technet_msdn.net
technet.msdn.net
technet.msn.net
technet_msn.net
technet.msn.com
technet_msn.com
technet_microsoft.com 
technet.microsoft.com 
technet.microsoft.net
technet_microsoft.net 
updates.com
updates.net 
updates.ms.com
updates_ms.com 
updates.ms.net
updates_ms.net 
updates.msdn.com
updates_msdn.com 
updates_msdn.net 
updates.msdn.net 
updates.msn.com
updates_msn.com 
updates.msn.net 
updates_msn.net 
updates.microsoft.com 
updates_microsoft.com 
updates.microsoft.net 
updates_microsoft.net
yahoo.com               Major two-way mailbox player.
yahoo.net