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RE: [cobalt-users] OT ** ORBZ **
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] OT ** ORBZ **
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Mar 20 02:56:27 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> Yes, I heard about this., I think they may have had a problem
> with their system It banged the sh** out of my servers.
> Hundreds of messages (relay-denied), looked like test for
> relaying messages, I finally had to shut them off at the firewall.
>
They apparently test with a reply address of something like
bounce@[127.0.0.1] and apparently it crashed someone's server, and
they're filing criminal charges.
The owner of ORBZ knew about this problem, but kept using that testing
method anyway.
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/209116
Abuse is abuse, no matter what the reason.
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Dan Kriwitsky
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