Re: Unauthorized use of SMTP Server

James Corey ( datadoc@datadoctor.com )
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:16:22 -0400

As a follow up to the news item at
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,11309,00.html

check out
http://www.webs.com/w/webs001.nsf/Names/SpamFight.htm?OpenDocument&ExpandView

This guy _won_ his court fight to get a restraining order against mr spamford.

At 14:22 07/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>We have had on two different occasions either USA.NET or one of their
customers using our SMTP server without our permission. They are Spamming
thousands of users and eating up our email server. We have since upgraded
our IMail to prevent this.
>
>My question is, isn't this illegal? Has this happened to anyone else. If
so, what action have you taken?
>
>Marvin L. Anglin
>manglin@atlonline.com
>Atlanta On-Line InterNet, Inc.
>770-955-3000
>
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