At 11:29 AM -0500 3/30/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! I came across this list while doing a random search. I found a >message that said "I think I've been joed".
According to the "Glossary of Spam-Related Terms" at <http://www.rahul.net/falk/glossary.html>: ---begin--- Joe (v.) The act of destroying a domain's good name via revenge spam or other attack. Named after Joes.com, a web-hosting service which was vicitimized in this way. (See sample spam.) According to Follower of the Clawed Albino, this is what happened: Joes.com had a web-hosting service. A rather notorious and evil spammer known as Yuri Rutman happened to get a web page at joes.com (if memory serves, it was for some bogus quack remedy or other) and proceeded to spamvertise it via another account. Joes.com's admin did not like this. Joes.com had an AUP which said, in part, "Thou shalt not spamvertise sites hosted here, lest the wrath of the Administrator be just and verily smite thine account". Said website was smited. Yuri, as most sociopathic serial-spammers [yes, I know that's a double adjective, but...) tend to do, got pissy. He proceeded to forge a spam from Yet Another Account, with the admin of joes.com's address, basically going "We'll let folks do what we want here and we like spam so neener neener neener". Literally a cast of thousands got downright rabid at this point. Many folks, who did not carefully check the headers, proceeded to send tons of angry mail at best and pingfloods and mailbombs at worst towards joes.com. The proceeding shitstorm that was raised not only knocked joes.com off the net, but also knocked its UPSTREAM off the net too. Joes.com ended up being taken down as a result, a guy lost a business, and the term "joe-job" (meaning a forged spam meant to cause a denial-of-service-by- proxy attack) came into the Internet spamfighting lexicon. <set voice=Paul_Harvey.voice> And now you know...the REST of the story. Good day... <set voice=normal.voice> Other references: * Yuri Rutman info. <http://www.rahul.net/falk/quickrefh.html#rutman> * Spam Attack! <http://www.joes.com/spammed.html> ---end--- -- Tom Geller * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * +1-415-552-2557 Media Liaison/Secretary, SpamCon Foundation <http://www.spamcon.org> Protecting email as a medium of communications and commerce A California non-profit organization Become a member: <http://www.spamcon.org/membership> _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
