mailbombing - a myth or a legend
Yes… those where the times…
I don’t know how many of you where in the mailbombing scene (shouldn’t even name it scene)… but there where groups of people who formed small comunities (let’s call them this way) of mailbombers.
And it was easy to mailbomb… what times… nowadays true mailbombing doesn’t exist…
What do I call a true mailbombing? An attack that could render useless your email address…
How could this happen? We can only make some asumptions, because in a different days than nowadays when webmail services (such as Yahoo) had to process many emails at once, they pushed hard and processed them; as of nowadays (I assume) they que emails if they come at a high rate (at least gmail does). Another reason why this could happen (refering to the old yahoo also) was because the limit of 6mb per email address (nowadays being virtualy limitless)…
And a small theory: We (as I and some other folks that used to mailbomb) used to assume that the Yahoo! webmailed service worked in such a way that if a specific email address would have surpased it’s 6mb limitation than that email would no longer be used… It’s just a theory, nowbody proved it, but it seemed to work…
Those where the times… when you used apps like HakTek, Avalanche (other programs existet)… or if you used Linux simple mail scripts…
A myth or a legend… nobody knows…
Take a look on how nowadays mailbombing works… sweet but not as effective…e-mail bombing in informationleak way/
