From: David Ritz Subject: DOS Attack from newsmaster@netzilla.net (was "Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla UDP) Fri Jun 27" & "Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) , Sun Jun 15") Date: 1997/06/30 Message-ID: #1/1 To: newsmaster@netzilla.net Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet Organization: SpamBusters! Reply-To: David Ritz X-Posted-By: dritz@206.165.6.210 (dritz) Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet To : newsmaster@netzilla.net Cc : spam@primenet.com, hostmaster@mci.net, Jerry Reynolds , rick@NETZILLA.NET Dear NewsMaster, I am curious to know whether there was some purpose to your messages, which are nothing more than identical copies of reports and headers detailing Usenet abuse originating from your site. I was unable to find any added information in any of the multiple copies I received from you: == + 14 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + 15 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + 16 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + 17 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + N 18 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + N 19 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + N 20 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + N 21 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + N 22 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + N 23 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (204K) Headers: Spam, BI = 4513.319 (Zilla U + 24 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (168K) Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) Sun J + N 25 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (168K) Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) Sun J + N 26 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (168K) Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) Sun J + 27 Jun 30 To: dritz@primenet (168K) Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) Sun J == Was there some purpose to this denial of service attack? Is this further evidence that Intel Telecom Corporation (ITC) is rogue? From the information I received: >From postmaster@netzilla.net Sun Jun 15 20:40:00 1997 >Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:09:39 -0600 >From: postmaster@netzilla.net >To: David Ritz >Subject: Re: Spam, BI = 3575.003 (zilla) Sun Jun 15 <...> >Any questions can be sent to: newsmaster@netzilla.net > >Thank You > >Control ID: 1259658bde it appears that my complaints have been addressed correctly. Please explain your actions. -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Ritz Anti-spam resources: http://spam.abuse.net Support the anti-Spam amendment. Join at http://www.cauce.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Received: from [207.70.214.21] (flstf.netzilla.net [207.70.214.21]) by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28334 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:43:41 -0700 (MST) X-Sender: newsmaster@netzilla.net Message-Id: Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:52:48 -0600 To: dritz@primenet.com From: David Ritz (by way of newsmaster) Subject: Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) Sun Jun 15 Content-Length: 165360 Subject: Spam, BI = 4943.487 (Zilla UDP) Sun Jun 15 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.sightings Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet Complain-To: newsmaster@netzilla.net Abuse-spotted-in: (see report) Abuse-Subject: (see report) Type-of-abuse: EMP/ECP Description: Usenet spam This is a report of apparent Net-Abuse. Only articles which have not been cancelled, at the time they were logged, are listed. Only a small sample of Usenet groups were searched in the alt.binaries.* and alt.sex* hierarchies. Actual Net-Abuse may much greater than shown. I have not issued cancels on these items. Full headers available on request. Please post appropriate followups to nana.usenet. --------------------------- Abuse Summary -------------------------- DESCRIPTION: Zilla UDP TOTAL POSTS: 4113 TOTAL BI: 4943.487 DATES OF POSTS These articles were posted between: Mon Jun 9 12:15:06 1997 (GMT) and Thu Jun 12 15:54:59 1997 (GMT). SPAM ARTICLES DETECTED: Message-ID BI -------------------------------------------------------------------- <33a0ce23.1@news.netzilla.net> 1.000 [snip message-ids (dritz 970630)]