Replied: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:37:54 EDT Replied: "Tom Betz foley@mit.edu" From auto-replier-daemon@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Thu Sep 12 23:52:41 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id XAA10909; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:52:41 -0400 Received: from BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25414; Thu, 12 Sep 96 23:52:16 EDT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) id XAA10884; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:52:14 -0400 Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [198.7.0.4]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with ESMTP id XAA10850 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:52:02 -0400 Received: (from tbetz@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.7.5/8.7/PanixU1.3) id XAA14089 for news-answers-submit@rtfm.mit.edu; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Betz Message-Id: <199609130351.XAA14089@panix3.panix.com> Old-Subject: Resubmission - "What is Scientology?" (ARSBOMB) Spam Team FAQ for Los Angeles Area ISPs Old-To: news-answers-submit@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:51:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Comment: Resubmitted because of 1) added newsgroups 2) revised Subject 3) Had to break up Summary: to make it postable X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [checked] To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU From: tbetz@panix.com (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: ca.usenet,la.news,la.general,alt.bbs.internet,alt.internet.services,news.admin.net-abuse.announce,misc.news.internet.announce,alt.religion.scientology,misc.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: "What is Scientology?" (ARSBOMB) Spam Team FAQ for Los Angeles Area ISPs Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc Summary: This posting describes the circumstances surrounding the "What Is Scientology" Spam Attack on the Usenet Newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, the potential consequences for ISP admins who host the WIS Spam Team, and the means by which ISP admins may prevent their suffering those consequences. X-Summary: It should be read by anyone operating an Internet Service Provider or Internet-connected Bulletin Board System in the Los Angeles, California area, or by anyone who wonders who's posting all those excerpts from the book "What Is Scientology?" to alt.religion.scientology over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Expires: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT Archive-name: scientology/spam-team-faq Posting-Frequency: monthly, on or about the 15th of the month Last-modified: 1996/09/13 Version: 1.2 URL: http://www.panix.com/~tbetz/WIS_Spam_Team_FAQ.html The "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team FAQ for Los Angeles Area ISPs Version 1.2 -- Sept 13, 1996 Do you run an Internet Service Provider or Internet-connected Bulletin Board Service in the metro Los Angeles area? Has a woman (or two women) come to your office recently to open a temporary SLIP or PPP account "for my son" or "for my brother who will be staying with me for a month on vacation" -- happy, maybe even insisting, on paying for the month in cash, or paying for the account using a credit card with a name on it other than the name they give for the account holder? The odds are extremely good that this account is about to be abused by the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team, as part of an ongoing theft-of-service and denial-of-service attack on a Usenet Newsgroup. [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]