Byond DOwn for Good.

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Nov 20 2004, 5:48 pm
People have been getting this Message.

From: [email protected]
Subject: BYOND Down for Good
During Sunday, November 21, BYOND will no longer be active as we can no longer sustain funds to keep it active. We apologize and thank you for being with us.

Im thinking its not true, Since it probably would have been posted on the Forums..

Nov 20 2004, 5:52 pm
It's False. I never recieved anything. It would have also been announced on the forums.

~>Jiskuha
Nov 20 2004, 5:53 pm
Pennywise99 wrote:
People have been getting these Messages.

From: [email protected]
Subject: BYOND Down for Good
During Sunday, November 21, BYOND will no longer be active as we can no longer sustain funds to keep it active. We apologize and thank you for being with us.

Im thinking its not true, Since it probably would have been posted on the Forums..

Someone probably just figured out how SMTP really works, or got their first Linux/BSD box to play with. Check the email's headers. They'll show the ip address of every mailserver the e-mail travelled through to get to you, including the address of the computer the e-mail was originally sent from! :)
Nov 20 2004, 6:04 pm
'Tis called "Mailbombing" as pointed out. =P
Nov 20 2004, 6:18 pm
AHAHAHAHAHA! Neither Dan or Tom could manage to write something that short. If BYOND was going down, you would have had a MUCH longer e-mail. Plus, they wouldn't have bothered with e-mails, they would have just made a post. On top of that, I doubt they would have given us warning, they probably would have just downed the page and left something saying it was no longer going to be there.

Plus, they say: During sunday, November 21, BYOND will no longer be active...

That kind of awful sentence structure could not have come out of either of the entities that are DanTom.
Nov 20 2004, 6:23 pm
Hehe, no, this sounds like someone is hosting a SMTP server or such and they're spoofing ^^

~Kujila
Nov 20 2004, 9:44 pm
Wow. This might be the first hoax that no one in this community believed. Although I suppose it's too much to hope that this means common sense is breaking out all over.

Now all we need to do is convince people no one's going to ever ask for their password except in a scam.

Lummox JR
Nov 21 2004, 4:29 am
In response to Lummox JR
Oh, that reminds me. I need your password to verify that.

*cough*
Nov 21 2004, 8:19 am
In response to Jon88
How do you check the headers of an e-mail?
Nov 21 2004, 8:25 am
In response to Airjoe
Airjoe wrote:
How do you check the headers of an e-mail?

In Outlook Express, right click on the message and choose Properties, then click on the Details tab on the popup.

Here's headers from one spam site which has been a real pain in the butt for me:


Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from la02-net01-184.quickinspirations.com (la02-net01-184.quickinspirations.com [64.156.187.184])
by polaris.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D2F4F8D8
for <[email protected]>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:20:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: by la02-net01-184.quickinspirations.com (PowerMTA(TM) v2.0r13) id hjl54u03u7oa; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:20:12 -0800 (envelope-from <[email protected]>)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:20:12 -0800
From: New Cars <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Need a New Car? The Best Prices & Rates are Here
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="ffff"
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Nov 21 2004, 4:02 pm
In response to Airjoe
Airjoe wrote:
How do you check the headers of an e-mail?

All I need is your password, and I'll find it out for you! >_>
Nov 21 2004, 8:12 pm
In response to Spuzzum
Here's one for ya'


Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from ballerstatus.net (unknown [218.71.205.62])
by polaris.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 086184F894
for <[email protected]>; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:15:24 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:08:09 -0700
From: "roger dinh" <[email protected]>
User-Agent: The Bat! (v1.52f) Business
X-Accept-Language: en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "Nicole's Forwarding Account" <******@nadrew.com>
Subject: no more delay if with internet pharmacy
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on
polaris.dreamhost.com
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_10,J_CHICKENPOX_42,
RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60
X-Spam-Level: *


They won't even give me an unsubscribe link =\
Nov 21 2004, 8:15 pm
In response to Spuzzum
Ban him! Ban him!
Nov 21 2004, 8:15 pm
In response to Ter13
Ter13 wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHA! Neither Dan or Tom could manage to write something that short. If BYOND was going down, you would have had a MUCH longer e-mail.

Not if they didn't have the funds for it... :P
Nov 21 2004, 8:16 pm
In response to Foomer
"From DanTom"

Due to a lack of fund-
Nov 22 2004, 1:57 am
In response to Nadrew
I thought it was illegal to not give an unsubscribe linnk...
Nov 22 2004, 5:34 am
In response to Spuzzum
Spuzzum wrote:
Airjoe wrote:
How do you check the headers of an e-mail?

In Outlook Express, right click on the message and choose Properties, then click on the Details tab on the popup.

Here's headers from one spam site which has been a real pain in the butt for me:
[snip]

Use SpamCop (www.spamcop.net) and take some action against them. Then ask someone with access to polaris to edit the access file a little. :)


/Gazoot
Nov 22 2004, 7:44 am
In response to Airjoe
I -think- it is, but it's not like the internet is the most legal-friendly place on the planet.
One thing I absolutely loathed was getting up to 3 emails a day about Viagra and a bunch of other drugs of that nature, but not only was there no unsubscribe link but every single word was constantly misspelled. I set up 10 different filters for those junk messages alone and they'd constantly come through. :-/
Nov 22 2004, 8:14 am
If anyone still has the email, could you please forward the whole thing (including headers) to mheasley at byond dot com? Thanks.