I'm getting serious delays with e-mails at the moment, so on checking up on it, I found this!

Presumably there's a lot of work involved in being this much of an a$$ole!








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Ticket
Ticket Number 1222940
Time Stamp Nov 8 2001 2:17PM
Priority P3
Status Updated
Department blueyonder Technical Support
Estimated Fix Time 36 hours
Customers Affected ALL
Ticket Raised By Jonathan Stone
Detailed Desscription
At the moment we are getting innundated by an email spammer coming from a BT address.They have so far sent about 200,000 mails into the blueyonder mail queues this morning, and are still attempting this at the rate of around of at least 50 a second. Although we have put a block on these via Mailsweeper (our newly introduced spam and virus filter ), it is still causing a delay with legitimate mail, as the servers detect and delete these mails.

- blueyonder technical Support




Ticket Updates:

Last Modified Name Customers Affected Estimated Time Status Priority
Nov 9 2001 1:08PM Jonathan Stone ALL 36 hours Updated P3
Detailed Description
Following on from the mail spammer from BT yesterday, who has sent in the region of 2 million mails, the Mailsweeper product quarantined all mails as it struggled to keep up with what was effectively a denial of service attack. The BT customer was trying to mail the spam to almost every combination of letters at cableinet.co.uk addresses. Although this was still happening this morning, the servers are processing mail normally and all new mail should be processed immediately.

We are currently working with Baltimore (the makers of Mailsweeper) to ensure that the mail which has been quarantined, will be delivered as soon as possible, and we apologise to everyone who will be affected by the delivery of this late mail.


BT have been informed of the full details of the customer in question, via our abuse team.


-blueyondeTechnical Supportr

 

Dicks like this should go to prison.
See how he likes it when big Jessie gives him a good reaming for the next 2 years

 

LOL.

The mystifying part about it, is that this twat must have enough technical knowledge to be able to do something useful.

I suppose they just do it because they can. I wonder if he'll get any more punishment than a withdrawal of service....tops!

 

There are many hacker sites out there where you can download programmes of this type.
They are very childish, annoying and sometimes extremely effective.

 

Maybe if a bunch of aggrieved IT users turned up at these pocket weasels' hovels, they might get an attack of real reality & crap themselves!

 

This is whats known as a 'denial of service attack' and its so easy to do, particuarly with an SMTP mail server. Even so I would have expected blueyonder to be able to cope with this a bit better.

I'm also with blueyonder and Im still waiting for email sent to me from over 2 days ago

 

being an admin for a network, and getting all mis-addressed emails, this kind of stuff drives me nuts.

(And the crap response from the abuse departments of other networks, BT being particularly bad, recently informed them of a spammer using a domain on there systems, didn't even get a reply, morons )

Getting these idiots prosecuted under present law is a joke.

And our wonderful MEP on the Euro commission about this junk, stopped the eu from making spam illegal and easy to prosecute.

(I'm taking it up with my MP (he's having dinner with the minister responsible on Dec 11th , and need as much ammo as possible )

 

I vote for giving them a denial of service attack in return. Break their bloody fingers or do what the Arabs do to thieves - chop their hands off.

 

About 8 weeks ago someone hacked into our dedicated web server and fcuked up our email system by trying to send out 350,000 emails. We co-locate and the host company had to pull the plug on us until we fixed the breach and we got a bill for