Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:36:25 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Infowar: Muslim Student News list Tampering
Cc: msanews-ed@msanews.mynet.net
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[Note from Matthew Gaylor:  I've been getting the Muslim Student 
Association News mailing list (MSANEWS) for many years (it was 
created in 1991).  One of their editors used to subscribe to my 
mailing list and he lived nearby.  They went dead for about four 
hours this afternoon from about 2pm onward-  The message below 
details their view that their servers are being tampered with.  I 
tried to send a posting this afternoon titled "Anonymous Tip Web Link 
Now Available Worldwide to Report Information to U.S. Authorities" 
which came back with an error message.  They appear to be up and 
running again. MSANEWS Home Page:   <http://msanews.mynet.net/>, 
Comments to the Editors: <msanews-ed@msanews.mynet.net>, Submissions 
for MSANEWS:  <msanews@msanews.mynet.net>, Problems with 
subscription:   <msaosu@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> ]


At 9:07 PM -0500 9/14/01, MSANEWS wrote:
>  many Arab and Islamic networks are having a lot of troubles distributing

>information during these tragic times. We do not know if we're

>being jammed, if the internet is slow (it almost came to a halt on

>the day of the tragedy, as detailed in the news; Aljazeera.net

>said the slowdown was worse than the day the virus 'red code'

>hit).

>

>Your service, MSANEWS, has been receiving multiples copies of the

>same message, empty copies of message, still receiving multiples

>copies of the infamous worm from two months ago, etc.

>

>Your list, as well as others of well-known national organizations

>have experienced a lot of technical problems for the last 10 days

>or so. We have no clue about the processing problems or their

>origins.

>

>It pains our hearts that we cannot distribute what you share in a

>timely fashion. The horror of the second airplane still haunts one

>of our editors, and it disgusts him as he writes these words. We

>are extremely depressed reporting depressing news of killing and

>mayhem for the last year since the start of the intifada, and more

>now. We are losing our sanity reporting the ugliness of the world

>(torture, imprisonment, destruction and mayhem). By Allah, we are.

>And by Allah, we are just sick, sick, sick of all of this. When

>will this all end?




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