On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Vince Sabio wrote:
> ** Sometime around 22:45 +0100 10/10/1999, Jeffrey Goldberg said:
>
> >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.
>
> But that's not necessarily *Steve Bergeon's* domain, which is (I believe)
> the point that John was making. It really does smell of a reverse-mailbomb
> attack.
The incoming mail to majordomo is from encephalon.com according to the
MTA logs, as is the from address (address to be subscribed). The domain
itself is owned by Stever Bergeon (Internic whois). The mail may be many
things, but it is not a forgery. I should have made it clear that that
was one of the first things I checked out.
-j
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