Yay Jeremy (was Re: [plug] Spam sender sues)

[Leon Brooks]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 19:37, Peter Wright wrote:
>   (a) t3direct.com.au     A    202.139.241.136
>   (b) t3direct.com.au     A    203.55.16.244
>   ©   t3direct.com.au     A    192.168.1.10

> In case your email client didn't read that correctly - the third item in
> the list was _not_ a "(c)", though they obviously meant it to be - whatever
> software the plaintiff's legal team used to create this document appears to
> have rendered it as a copyright symbol. And they didn't notice.

MS-Word. AutoCorrect. Type no evil. Suuuure... (-:

> That's not even the best bit, though.

> Most of the people on PLUG should notice this, but if you didn't -
> 192.168.1.10 is _not_ an IP number that could have been purchased from an
> ISP.

Agree. I wonder how well set up that DNS is. For example, do you think it 
would be vulnerable to poisoning?

> In the next paragraph (4) they allege that the "Defendant" sent a complaint
> to SPEWS about their spamming, which caused them to be listed in SPEWS.
> They then point to the SPEWS record in question - here's a link:

> http://www.spews.org/html/S1488.html

> I suspect that the SPEWS record has been updated since they wrote this
> document.... or maybe the plantiff's legal team never even bothered to look
> at it. Note this explicit addition to the record *evil grin*:

Nah, they'll just sue SPEWS for tampering with evidence.

Cheers; Leon