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Article #216Re: Spam site -was: Hotmail
From: Peter Smith
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:00
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In message <3ae7bd5a48%tim@worthy.demon.co.uk>
Tim Howarth <tim@worthy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <485A646FA3%polaris@ursaminr.demon.com.uk>
> Peter Smith <polaris@ursaminr.demon.com.uk> wrote:
>
> > Tell me about it. I had 210 bounced emails waiting for me between mid
> > afternoon Friday and 7pm.
> >
> > A very kind spammer had spammed what appeared to be the whole of AOL,
> > with the "From:" and "Message-Id" set to "giffy@ursaminr.demon.co.uk" :-(
> > I think I pissed someone off :-(
>
> I've had this to, addressed to giffy@worthy.demon and
> retiredPI@worthy.demon and spymaster@....
>
> Complete pain in the bum, I've even had a follow up purporting to be
> someone complaining about me sending the spam!
>
I told abuse@demon _first_ think. Just to tell them it wasn't me. It's
obvious it's not, mainly because it's from someone in the US, and there are
no Demon things in the received.
> Anyone else had this lately ?
>
> I've contacted demon to see if they can sort it out as I was receiving
> a couple of dozen or so per day at around 11k each.
>
> (They seem to have stopped/slowed for the time being.)
>
That makes me feel so much better. It means chances are it wasn't a revenge
thing, just a braindead thing. Phew!
Peter
--
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