telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (01/15/91)
The person who sent the mail-bomb several days ago to all the various names gathered up from the Digest is continuing his vendetta by forging postings to comp.dcom.telecom, adding the information necessary to trick the backbone sites into accepting his traffic. This is nothing new on the net: crackers and other malcontents have engaged in this sort of abusive behavior for years. Maybe it gives them a high of some sort to ruin or deface the work others are doing. But we have been fortunate here in the past, with very little of this in the telecom newsgroup. If you have questions about the authenticity of messages in comp.dcom.telecom you can check the header information. TELECOM Digest will always show a line saying "sent by news@accuvax.nwu.edu" or "bu.edu". That line in the header is more difficult to defeat. PAT