Watch out! was: Re: Very Wierd someone is masquarading as the mail list?

From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com>
Date: Mon Dec 20 20:15:54 1999

At 14:34 20-12-1999 -0500, you wrote:

>Upon the date 11:17 AM 12/20/99 -0800, Zane H. Healy said something like:
>>Has anyone gotten a eMail message that appears to have come from the
>>mailing list with the header "Re: Help identify a Control Data piece", when
>>in reality it looks to have come from "helpdesk-pc.pittstate.edu
>>[198.248.209.153]" if I'm reading the headers right.

        <snip>

        I just DNS'd that address. It's from Pitt-State all right. InterNIC
contact info, for those of you that wish to follow up, is:

Registrant:
Pittsburg State University (PITTSTATE-DOM)
   Office of Information Systems 1701 S.
   Broadway
   Pittsburg, KS 66762

   Domain Name: PITTSTATE.EDU

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Brennan, J. Michael (JMB84) psuadm_at_MAIL.PITTSTATE.EDU
      316-235-4603
   Billing Contact:
      Brennan, J. Michael (JMB84) psuadm_at_MAIL.PITTSTATE.EDU
      316-235-4603

   Record last updated on 28-Jan-1999.
   Record created on 25-May-1993.
   Database last updated on 20-Dec-1999 12:58:05 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   PSUNAMES.PITTSTATE.EDU 198.182.243.15
   XPSUNAMES.PITTSTATE.EDU 198.248.214.15

        I'm not the only one who can fight spam. ;-) Most universities have pretty
strong anti-abuse policies, so forwarding a copy of the crap to the E-addy
above should get quick action.


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