Article 14387 of alt.sex.cthulhu: From: Justin Martin Campbell Newsgroups: alt.sex.cthulhu Subject: POD: Re: WAR JOURNAL: We have met the enemy and he is... a number? Date: 13 Mar 1997 01:48:37 GMT Andrew Nellis wrote: >The person/thing/agency/entity responsible for at least *half* of all the >spam on alt.sex.cthulhu and some days as much as 80% is a series of ip >addresses as follows: > > 208.16.76.X where X is 42, 39, 36, et al. > >Could someone find out who or what this address is? This address is >responsible for sending as many as 100 spams a day to alt.sex.cthulhu. If >we can figure out who this is and they won't stop, I will dedicate my life >and my long distance bill to cutting off all his/her/its downstream >connections. This MUST stop. Well, with the ten minutes I had before running out the door, here's what I could find. I ran: dix -x 208.16.76 and found: ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> -x ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 3, Addit: 3 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; 76.16.208.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: 76.16.208.in-addr.arpa. 311444 SOA ns1.sprintlink.net. dns-admin.sprintlink.net. ( 96121201 ;serial 43200 ;refresh 3600 ;retry 2419200 ;expire 345600 ) ;minim ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: 16.208.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 39195 NS ns1.sprintlink.net. 16.208.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 39195 NS NS2.sprintlink.net. 16.208.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 39195 NS NS3.sprintlink.net. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: ns1.sprintlink.net. 32388 A 204.117.214.10 NS2.sprintlink.net. 96696 A 199.2.252.10 NS3.sprintlink.net. 345536 A 204.97.212.10 ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 0 msec ;; FROM: waltz to SERVER: default -- 192.160.13.9 ;; WHEN: Wed Mar 12 17:42:22 1997 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 40 rcvd: 221 I believe this means that ns1.sprintlink.net is responsible for giving out the IP address that you mentioned above. You might try contacting the postmaster there. When I get home later this evening, I try to dig up some more info. Justin Campbell Military Intelligence and Wartime Chronicler. -- __ (oO) Cthulhu For President, why vote for the lesser of two evils? /||\ http://www.cthulhu.org/