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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: What's with all the weird spam?
Date: 25 Jul 2002 11:16:12 -0600
Date: 2002-07-25T11:16:12-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pIMc4MPZyOcr@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4519e058.0207250606.60ed5e87@posting.google.com

In article <4519e058.0207250606.60ed5e87@posting.google.com>, dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:

> The "from" header seems to be forged, but you can go to
> http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&Netnic=whois.arin.net&host=24.222.194.126
> to see a nice detailed tracert of the common nntp posting host for
> these messages. It appears to be comming from a cable-modem user in
> Canada.
> 
> If it were me, (which it never would be), I think I'd use a free
> dialup account rather than an expensive easily traceable cable-modem
> account to spam usenet.

But it might only trace to the machine the perpetrator was able
to crack into.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-25 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-25  0:02 What's with all the weird spam? chris.danx
2002-07-25  0:47 ` Christopher Browne
2002-07-25 14:06   ` Ted Dennison
2002-07-25 17:16     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-07-25  2:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-07-25 13:55   ` Ted Dennison
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