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Re: [Fwd: --> CRISIS on USENET -- SIGN THE PROTEST STATEMENT VIAE-MAIL]
From: IN%"[email protected]" "Rich Burroughs" 28-MAY-1996 19:12:55.39
>In the last week, there have been several thousand (and rapidly approaching
>10,000!) short posts swamping the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s.)
>by a person or persons unknown. They are coming from several accounts, most
>of them forged or bogus, and when the account is closed by its site
>administrator based on complaints, the flood begins anew elsewhere. In at
>least one instance a mail-to-news gateway has been used, necessitating the
>administrator to close all posting to a.r.s. That one gateway has received,
>last we heard, 886 attempted posts by the spammer within a 28 hour period
>(which fortunately never reached their intended destination -- but thousands
>of others have.)
>3) The use of semi-anonymous "throw-away" accounts somewhat follows the same
> pattern used recently to cancel posts containing portions of CoS' "secret"
> scriptures, and which used the boiler-plate statement "Cancelled due to
> copyright infringement" as the justification for the clearly illegal
> cancels.
> b) Kill files work by finding posts having certain identifiable attributes
> in the header or message body, such as the From: address -- but as the
> spam on a.r.s. shows, we've got a moving target that will resist kill
> files. Any organization with enough money can keep getting throw-away
> accounts that cannot be traced to the organization. They can also alter
I am curious as to what systems these throw-away accounts are on; they
would appear to be good output systems for ephemeral remailer endpoints.
Admittedly, I suspect that this will take ecash remailers unless they're all
through systems like aol.com that accept credit cards with inadequate
verification (from what I know, check digit(s) only).
-Allen