Re: Email Hack: Help.

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• Subject: Re: Email Hack: Help.
• From: "Cypherpunk Preacher" <isbe@ix9.ix.netcom.com>
• Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:59:00 +0000
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Doug Breault wrote:
=>
=>Hello Everyone,
=>
=>We've got a problem here with a hacker. There's some punk 
=>apparently hacking a mail server somewhere and sending BS postings all over 
=>the net regarding get rich quick schemes, etc - from a non-existent 
=>account on our server. They've done it twice so far, from two different 
=>non-existent accounts.

Are they actually coming from your server or does someone just have 
a fake reply address (with your servers name) ?

The examination of an actual posting may be required to determine the 
solution.

Perhaps a search of Deja News for any peculiar idiosyncracies could 
find a clue to the vandal's identity. 

seeya
Cypherpunk Preacher
 
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