Re: Cranfield.ac.uk now blocking mail from encephalon.com

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, John R Levine wrote:

> That's a reverse mailbomb attack.  Someone doesn't like sbergeon and is 
> trying to forge subscriptions to a gazillion lists.  In all likelihood 
> the forger isn't anywhere near that domain.

I've checked the MTA logs.  They do come from the named domain.

> I've set my mail aliases so I keep copies of mail to majordomo, to make it
> easier to track both deliberate and inadvertent mailbomb attacks like this
> one. 

Very good idea!  I suspect a "which" or "who" attack.

-j

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