November 06, 2003
Google's up to something

Everyone's favourite search engine Google is up to something.

Item 1: The antiflux mail server is being flooded with mail from 216-239-45-4.google.com (216.239.45.4). Below is the MRTG chart showing 11,600 emails/hour at peak. Evan dispatched an email to Google and started blocking the connections with a helpful "FUCK OFF" message. Haven't heard anything back yet.

Item 2: The Register reports that Google is trawling IRC chat rooms.

Item 3: The Register story links to a web page noting the IRC bot comes from the same IP as the mail bomb we're experiencing.

Conspiracy theories?

Google mailbombing us

Posted by tim at November 06, 2003 04:15 PM
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and slashdot catches up to log.antiflux.org

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/131256

Posted by: mike on November 11, 2003 12:24 PM

Shouldn't a post like this be in the system log?

Posted by: bricode on November 14, 2003 07:26 AM
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