02-11-2015, 02:51 PM
I wanted to see how often forums like DI appeared in news stories and ran across this one from 2002 and did not see it mentioned here.
'Mail Bomb' Attack Threatens Web Site Popular With Diploma-Mill Watchdogs (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22, 2002) Archived: Highbeam
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DI discussion here.
'Mail Bomb' Attack Threatens Web Site Popular With Diploma-Mill Watchdogs (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22, 2002) Archived: Highbeam
This is all that is available for free,
Quote:The survival of Degreeinfo.com, an online forum on distance learning that is popular among diploma-mill watchdogs, students, and some college officials, has been threatened by anonymous attackers who barraged the Web site's domain-name server with 65,000 messages in one day.
The Web site's administrator, Chip White, says he doesn't know who perpetrated the "mail bomb" attack but suspects it was a diploma mill. He says the messages were sent by only a few people -- perhaps only one person -- but were made to appear as if they had been sent by many more.
"These vigilantes don't like what we're saying," says Mr. White, an administrator for a California-based health-care company. …
DI discussion here.