WAR JOURNAL: We have met the enemy and he is... a number?
Andrew Nellis
The person/thing/agency/entity responsible for at least *half* of all the
spam on alt.sex.cthulhu and some days as much as 80% is a series of ip
addresses as follows:
208.16.76.X where X is 42, 39, 36, et al.
Could someone find out who or what this address is? This address is
responsible for sending as many as 100 spams a day to alt.sex.cthulhu. If
we can figure out who this is and they won't stop, I will dedicate my life
and my long distance bill to cutting off all his/her/its downstream
connections. This MUST stop.
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Michael and Stefanie Dinsmore
Although I am standing 100% behind the author of the war journal,
and followed his daily chronology with much amusement, I nearly missed
this last installment because I search this newsgroup for 'pod' in the
subject line. I wanted to repost it so that those that do the same might
see it, and I wanted to remind the author of this convention.
'Pod' has been decided as the convention, yes?
Michael
Justin Martin Campbell
Justin Martin Campbell <j...@rahul.net> wrote:
>Andrew Nellis <bs...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>
>>The person/thing/agency/entity responsible for at least *half* of all the
>>spam on alt.sex.cthulhu and some days as much as 80% is a series of ip
>>addresses as follows:
>>
>> 208.16.76.X where X is 42, 39, 36, et al.
>>
>>Could someone find out who or what this address is? This address is
>>responsible for sending as many as 100 spams a day to alt.sex.cthulhu. If
>>we can figure out who this is and they won't stop, I will dedicate my life
>>and my long distance bill to cutting off all his/her/its downstream
>>connections. This MUST stop.
>
>
>Well, with the ten minutes I had before running out the door, here's
>what I could find.
>;; ANSWERS:
>76.16.208.in-addr.arpa. 311444 SOA ns1.sprintlink.net. dns-admin.sprintlink.net. (
As best as I can tell, that's all there is on those IP addresses.
You can try sending email to postm...@sprintlink.net but I don't
think you'll get a response. You might try asking around on some
of the net-abuse groups (after reading the appropriate FAQs).
I'll let you know if I come up with anything more.....
Hold on, Military Intelligence just come through with
a discovery. I ran a traceroute and found out that:
11 mail.fm-net.com (208.16.76.10) 136 ms 118 ms *
12 * 208.16.76.42 (208.16.76.42) 396 ms 355 ms
Which means that the spammers are being served by
fm-net.com. A quick whois reveals:
NODAK STORES (FM-NET-DOM)
505B 40th Street SW
Fargo, ND 58103
US
Domain Name: FM-NET.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Maurer, Mike (MM4528) Mi...@FM-NET.COM
701-277-9007 (FAX) 701-277-9007
Billing Contact:
Maurer, Mike (MM4528) Mi...@FM-NET.COM
701-277-9007 (FAX) 701-277-9007
Record last updated on 06-Dec-96.
Record created on 06-Dec-96.
Domain servers in listed order:
DNS.FM-NET.COM 208.16.76.10
NS1.SPRINTLINK.NET 204.117.214.10
NS2.SPRINTLINK.NET 199.2.252.10
NS3.SPRINTLINK.NET 204.97.212.10
Wooohooo. I think Cthulhu has looked favorably upon us.
I'd try sending an email to postm...@fm-net.com with
the info you have about the spammer.
We'll keep the frontlines updated with anything more we find out.
Good Luck,
Justin Campbell
Military Intelligence and Wartime Chronicler
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Kevin Blackburn
In article <Pine.A41.3.95.970312122650.127656C-
100...@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>, Michael and Stefanie Dinsmore
<mdin...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> writes
> 'Pod' has been decided as the convention, yes?
Seems to be - leastwise, it seemed to be enough that I put it in the FAQ
as a recommendation. It's probably, however, not yet time to assume that
anything without the tag is bound to be spam.
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Kevin Blackburn Ke...@fairbruk.demon.co.uk