From: Cu Digest (tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu)  <TK0JUT2@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU>
Subject: Cu Digest, #9.70, Sun 21 Sep 97 - Spammer Wallace Tossed off IPS

Computer underground Digest    Sun  Sep 21, 1997   Volume 9 : Issue 70
                           ISSN  1004-042X

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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:33:58 -0500
From: jthomas@VENUS.SOCI.NIU.EDU(Jim Thomas)
Subject: File 4--Cyber Promotions tossed offline (fwd)

 Source - News Com at http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,14429,00.html?owv

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   Cyber Promotions tossed offline
   By Janet Kornblum
   September 19, 1997, 1:25 p.m. PT

   Cyber Promotions, antispammers' enemy No. 1 on the Net, has once again
   been dumped by its access provider.

   Backbone provider AGIS cut off Cyber Promotions Wednesday, and the
   company has been scrambling for another ISP since.

   It was unclear exactly why Cyber Promotions was cut off, but an
   employee who answered the phone at AGIS's main switchboard declined to
   comment beyond the following: "They were in violation of security, and
   that's as far as I can go with it." No one else at AGIS would comment,
   either, the employee added.

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   Wallace said today that Cyber Promotions found itself cut off from
   AGIS Wednesday and that it took two days to find other providers where
   the company could mount portions of its service. But some of its
   clients are still without service, he added.

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   "Ping-flood attacks observed originating from the West Coast into AGIS
   and directed to the Washington and Philadelphia routers severely
   degraded AGIS network performance to [an] unacceptable level...AGIS
   had no alternative but to shut off services to Cyber Promotions,"
   reads a statement that Wallace put on his page. He alleged that the
   statement came from an AGIS engineer.

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