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RE: [council] Hostile attack on the dnso.org
Theresa, since the one thing I volunteered for at the LA meeting
dissolved, I would be more than happy to help and will add it to the
minutes and agenda I am preparing and hope to get out today or tomorrow.
-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa Swinehart [mailto:Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 9:35 AM
To: 'Elisabeth Porteneuve'; mclaughlin@pobox.com
Cc: council@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [council] Hostile attack on the dnso.org
I saw his notice - how many e-mails did he send to the Server. It
appears to
me that we should determine whether this constitutes spam, and entails a
strong warning that they were taken off b/c of inappropriate e-mails and
by
spaming they are only making the matter worse for themselves. By
inappropriate, I mean absolutely unacceptable list behavior, including
cases
that in some countries constitute libel, and swearing.
I would like to suggest that the NC, as a priority, post a set of e-mail
principles that must be used if on any DNSO listserves. I'd like Andrew
to
review it as well. the purpose is to provide us, and Elisabeth, with a
means
of taking action without wasting too much time, and having a visible
policy
in place on which we act.
Any volunteers to help me with this?
Theresa
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org] On Behalf
Of
Elisabeth Porteneuve
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 10:24 AM
To: mclaughlin@pobox.com
Cc: council@dnso.org
Subject: [council] Hostile attack on the dnso.org
Andrew,
You may have noticed an hostile attack on the dnso.org
-- several tens of identical messages, appearing as from different
members of ga@dnso.org list. You may visit ga@dnso archives.
The server were overloaded, and I had to stop mail service
and clean up hundreds of this spams awaiting distribution to
ga@dnso.org.
I had a chance (chance ?) to see the attack arriving, then
advise immediatelly. If it happen during European night,
we may had have disk troubles and a computer out of order.
The intial message was sent to me, then a number of messages forged,
and appearing each one as sent by a different member of
the ga@dnso.org list. Below you have both quoted completely (headers
included). Let's calculate: 260 messages each sent to 260 members,
it gives 67600 instantaneous messages -- and the sender made an
automate, i.e. he can repeat it as often as he can.
The author is the mostly disruptif one, and is filtered by me
with half a dozen of different addresses he has (but it is endless,
and technically whatever I do he can bypass).
If I do not filter, he offends people, insults, and uses
innacepptable vocabulary (which I cannot even understand !, but
some charitable persons told me).
He is posting from Canada (at least it appears from his text).
What to do ? He is certainly able to continue.
I am awaiting your legal help.
Kind regards,
Elisabeth
|1| From root@thx1138.diebold.net Mon Nov 8 14:16 MET 1999
|1| Received: from thx1138.diebold.net (123-diebold-205-189-73.pccf.net
[205.189.73.123])
|1| by balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id
OAA14354
|1| for <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>; Mon, 8 Nov 1999
14:16:48 +0100
|1| (MET)
|1| Received: (from root@localhost)
|1| by thx1138.diebold.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) id IAA14335;
|1| Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:06:34 -0500
|1| Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:06:34 -0500
|1| Message-Id: <199911081306.IAA14335@thx1138.diebold.net>
|1| From: baptista@iname.com
|1| To: Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr
|1| Subject: ga DNSO list is broken
|1| Content-Type: text
|1| Content-Length: 973
|1|
|1|
|1|
|1|
|1|
|1| Hello:
|1|
|1| I am writing to you concerning the ga@dnso.org list of which you and
I
|1| are members. The list has been broken for some time. I and some
other
|1| people seem incapable of transmitting message to it. Either the
list is
|1| broken - or someone is playing games.
|1|
|1| Either way, broken list or games - this is a disgrace we in the GA
can
|1| not afford.
|1|
|1| I have attempted to contact Elisabeth Porteneuve the list
administrator
|1| to get this fixed - but these attempts have been without success.
|1|
|1| In order to determine what problems there is with the list I am
giving
|1| you notice I will be conducting tests on the list to determine
exactly
|1| what the problem is. You may receive one test message - or 260 - it
all
|1| depends on what Elisabeth Porteneuve has done to the list.
|1|
|1| I also remind all of you, and members of the NC and ICANN board that
|1| having a broken list, or a list on which games are played, does not
|1| inspire confidence in this process.
|1|
|1| Regards
|1| Joe Baptista
|2| From owner-ga@dnso.org Mon Nov 8 14:26 MET 1999
|2| Received: from dnso.dnso.org (dnso.dnso.org [192.134.4.239])
|2| by balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id
OAA14517
|2| for <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>; Mon, 8 Nov 1999
14:26:21 +0100
|2| (MET)
|2| Received: (from majordomo@localhost)
|2| by dnso.dnso.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) id OAA27744
|2| for ga-list; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:22:16 +0100 (MET)
|2| Received: from thx1138.diebold.net (123-diebold-205-189-73.pccf.net
[205.189.73.123])
|2| by dnso.dnso.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA27696
|2| for <ga@dnso.org>; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:22:09 +0100 (MET)
|2| Received: (from root@localhost)
|2| by thx1138.diebold.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) id IAA14856;
|2| Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:12:07 -0500
|2| Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:12:07 -0500
|2| Message-Id: <199911081312.IAA14856@thx1138.diebold.net>
|2| From: Ann-Catherine Andersson <aca@telia.net>
|2| To: ga@dnso.org
|2| Subject: [ga] ga DNSO list is broken forged test from Ann-Catherine
Andersson <aca@telia.net>
|2| Sender: owner-ga@dnso.org
|2| Precedence: bulk
|2| Content-Type: text
|2| Content-Length: 86
|2|
|2|
|2|
|2| ATTENTION - this is a test message
|2|
|2| HEADER information is forged - please ignore
|2|