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Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...


From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () priori net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:42:55 -0800

On Jan 5, NetSurfer <netsurf () sersol com> wrote: 

What about representing yourself to be from another domain (e.g. AOL.COM)
so that the rejects/flames/etc. go to an innocent agent?  Isn't that a
form of fraud?

        Yes, and both AOL and Compuserve have won civil court cases
        based on that.

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