Examples of email interception

[Roland Perry]

In article <005501c46fdd$60937ab0$21a19ed9@HCERT001>, Andrew Cormack 
<A.Cormack@ukerna.ac.uk> writes
>>From personal experience a long time ago, recycling the e-mail address
>of a retired female academic and giving it to an immature first-year
>male student was a *really* bad idea :-(
>
>Fortunately there weren't any news reports, but there were a lot of
>faxes flying around containing the words "outrageous" and "disgraceful"!

I was ambushed (that's the only word for it) after an ICSTIS meeting a 
couple of years ago by an outraged customer of an ISP who had recycled a 
hostname to him. Apparently this unleashed a massive flood of 
pornographic spam (and probably many things that weren't spam).

He had, of course, specifically asked if that hostname was available, 
and was entirely unwilling to let it go. But he was firmly of the 
opinion that the ISP should be prosecuted for letting all these bad 
emails get through to him. The ISP, meanwhile, was caught in the 
crossfire.
-- 
Roland Perry