In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I don't know why they call it a Joe-job, I'd be very surprised if it happened
> to "Joe" before it happened to somewhere.com, we were getting bogus email
> bounces back in 1995 (initially due to an amusing glitch in Unix mail
> programs, but the spam didn't take long to follow).
http://www.rahul.net/falk/quickrefh.html
Rutman, Yuri Malicious spammer. Lost his account at joes.com and retaliated with
forged spam intended to look like it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED], in order to
cause trouble for joes.com. The backlash from people who did not know the
message was a forgery was sufficient to effectively destroy joes.com.
This is the origin of the term "Joe Job".
Looks like this was in 1997. There's no need to one-up anybody though.
This was just the first time somebody did this in order to specifically
DoS a domain.
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Dan Hartung * dan [at] dhartung [dot] com
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