From: Karl Asha
To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 14:38:29 -0400
This morning, when I checked root's mailbox on the only machine I
actually own on the blackdown.org network, I the following message.
For the record, xensei.com is my provider, pn.com is xensei's provider.
Message 1:
>From root@lysergic.gbltech.com Sat Aug 5 13:37:11 1995
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 12:39:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: Danny Crawford <root@gbltech.com>
To: root@blackdown.org
Subject: ftp mirrors
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Kalr would you stop mirroring my fucking ftp site please. People have
been writting me and telling me that warez.blackdown.org is nothing but a
fucking mirror to my ftp site.
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Message 2:
>From root@lysergic.gbltech.com Sat Aug 5 14:21:57 1995
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 13:24:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Danny Crawford <root@gbltech.com>
To: root@blackdown.org, root@xensei.com, root@pn.com
cc: root@gbltech.com
Subject: ftp mirroring
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It has come to my attention that the superuser of blackdwon.org
has been mirroring gbltech's ftp site. blackdown.org has no
authorization to mirror lysergic.gbltech.com but is doing so anyway. I
have sent root@blackdwon.org email on this and he has done nothing to
stop it. the ftp mirror site is warez.blackdown.org. Watch the fallowing
log of a ftp session:
lysergic:~# ftp warez.blackdown.org
Connected to warez.blackdown.org.
220 lysergic FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Sat Feb 18 13:40:36 CST 1995)
ready.
Name (warez.blackdown.org:root):
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-
230-
230- Welcome
230- to
230- lysergic
230-
230-
230-
230-Welcome, user@localhost This is an experimental FTP server. If you
230-have any unusual problems, please report them via e-mail to
drc@gbltech.com
230-If you do have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the first
character
230-of your password -- this will turn off the continuation messages that may
230-be confusing your ftp client.
230-
230- drc@gbltech.com
230-
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
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I want this stoped asap. We do not run a warez site here and don't plan
on letting anyone else do this eather. If this action does not stop in 3
days I and the other admins here will report this to the locak FBI for
further investigation.
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Message 3:
>From root Sat Aug 5 14:29:38 1995
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 14:29:37 -0400
From: Admin <root>
To: root@blackdown.org, root@gbltech.com, root@pn.com, root@xensei.com
Subject: Re: ftp mirroring
I just woke up to find two profane, and rather belligerent email messages
in my mail box from, Danny Crawford. In an effort to clear a matter that has
, to be quite honest, caused me to laugh more today than I have in several
years of my life, I would like to display the dns record for
'warez.blackdown.org'.
(2:25pm) karl@shadowridge (~) % nslookup warez.blackdown.org
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: warez.blackdown.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
Were you to do this from any machine on the civilized internet, I'm sure
the results would be the same.
I'm afraid, Mr. Crawford, you're the victim of a fairly amusing prank, and
even worse, your own lack of knowledge, which I'm quite pleased to
comment, has nothing to do with me.
Yours sincerely,
karl@blackdown.org
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I probably haven't laughed this much in several months ;-)
Karl Asha
karl@blackdown.org
Blackdown Virtual Network Administrator