OT: Who knows Peter Dominic Ryan - peter.d.ryan@bigfoot.com? Spammer alert!

Sep 2, 2000, 9:51 AM ET5 posts by 3 posters
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Oliver Brose

This dirty little piece just spammed me with thousands of emails of obscene and insulting content.

Did anybody else get spammed by him?

Oliver :(

Phill Harvey-SmithOliver Brose

[email] (Oliver Brose) wrote in :

Nope sorry I don't know him, you have of course forwarded some of it (including full headders) to [email] ?

Phill.

Oliver BrosePhill Harvey-Smith

Im Beitrag , [email] (Phill Harvey-Smith) schrieb:

Yes, did so. Same to GMX. Same to my provider. Same to unclespam.org

Shame, shame, shame.... *lala*

-> visit http://www.brose-net.de any SPAM in my mailbox will be forwarded to [email], so if you're looking for trouble...
Aaron BaugherOliver Brose

"Oliver Brose" writes:

Unless the spammer is a complete idiot, it's unlikely it really came from that address. It's extremely easy to spoof mail so that it looks like it's coming from someone else. If you inform [email], they should be able to check and see if it really came from that account.

Aaron

[email] - Coatsburg, IL, USA Extreme Systems Consulting - http://esc.pike.il.us/ CGI, Perl, and Linux/Unix Administration
Phill Harvey-SmithAaron Baugher

Aaron Baugher wrote:

That's not as unlikley as you think :)

Though a lot less easy than it used to be cirtainly all the mailservers I administer only allow remote mail to be sent from cirtain pre-determined addresses, which means that you have to trust the users at those addresses, but at least you generally know who they are and can go and jump on them :)

Phill.