On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:48, Lee Einer wrote:
> OK, so I have been getting a fairly high volume of infected e-mails
> (like 30-50 per day) from the same IP address for a week now. The IP
> address is registered to a magazine in Scottsdale. I have left phone
> messages for their IS person and their CEO, to no avail. I have notified
> their ISP (Qwest,) also to no avail. I am getting returned mail
> messages indicating that this company is also generating viral e-mails
> to others spoofed with my e-mail address. I am getting really, really
> pissed about this. These clowns have had a week to clean up, and they
> appear to be utterly uninterested in doing so.
>
> I am sorely tempted to filter all viral attachments to automatically
> forward to this company's published e-mail addresses. Would this be
> legal? Would it be considered a denial of service attack? What
> additional options do I have (besides living with this?)
DoS? I'd say two wrongs don't make a right.
How about small claims court? see
www.nolo.com for guidance.
Dennis Kibbe
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