Re: [spoon-discuss] more reverse spam

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday 05 September 2003 12:37 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> >Just got another email "returned" to me from wherever
> >whoever sent it to with my name...a 100k file
> >attached.  Not pretty on dialup.
> >
> >It occurs to me, though, that one could mailbomb
> >someone by sending a bunch of huge files with the
> >target's name in the From, so that they'd all get
> >"returned"...
>
> How would that be more effective than simply sending a bunch of huge
> files straight to the target?

It might be a bit more difficult to trace. In practice, however, the headers 
in the attached original message can be used to trace it back to the original 
sender (or a SOCKS or HTTP proxy) anyway.
- -- 
bd
I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them.
		-- Isaac Asimov
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