Quoting Nick Murtagh (nickm at go2.ie):
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > No, it's probably not a joe job, it's backscatter alright.
>> A quick google turns up:
>>http://catb.org/jargon/html/J/joe-job.html>http://members.cox.net/joejob/>> So I'm still calling it a joe job ;)
See also "Joe-job spams" and "Joe-job motivation" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/ .
A certain spammer whose name you'll find linked from there has been
known to threaten litigation against people who directly host accurate
tales of the 1997-01-02 incident that attacked Joe Doll's hosting site
and gave the world the term "joe job". (I was one of the many NANAE
regulars who received copies of the revenge-spam intended to cause harm
to Joe Doll.)
See also:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001013162208/http://www.markwelch.com/yuri.htmhttp://web.archive.org/web/20001014001213/www.markwelch.com/yuri_hd.htm
My condolences on being hit with large quantities of backscatter spam.
It's a difficult problem. On the receiving end, general anti-spam
approaches can put a dent in it, but mostly we need for other MTA sites
to cease being so credulous about where to send DSNs to (and thus stop
generating so much backscatter).
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