(This started on July 5 at 14:03 and is still going on as of 
June 9 at around midnight EST. -- UPDATE: As of 9:30 June 10, 
it seems to have stopped! I'll update when I know for sure.)


    The user at 'flainc@HOTMAIL.COM' is redirecting all gnutella
queries to my email address (matt@steinhoff.net). As such, I'm 
getting overrun by people emailing me looking for stuff.
    If you have done a gnutella (or clone) search in the past few
days, you probably have seen my name...

gnut> find anything
CURRENT RESPONSES
-----------------
1) email matt@steinhoff.net for kiddie porn and anything
 216.10.33.21:6345     size:80.854M    ref:84279680  speed:10000

    It all started when I noticed that every query I submitted
returned an html file. In that html file was a link to
'http://www.cybergirlsex.com/rawcash/click.cgi?tella'...

gnut> find anything and everything
CURRENT RESPONSES
-----------------
1) anything and everything.html
 216.100.51.42:6345    size:2.83K      ref:234946611  speed:10000

gnut> find nothing at all
CURRENT RESPONSES
-----------------
1) nothing at all.html
 216.100.51.42:6345    size:2.83K      ref:117638272  speed:10000

    I figured that an ambitious person had hacked gnutella in order
to promote the web site so that he'd get some extra cash. I sent
email to the the owner of 216.100.51.42 and they promptly shut off
the user's connection. I also sent email to cybergirlsex.com in hopes
that they wouldn't pay the user 'tella' for the referrals. Spam 
shouldn't pay no matter how it is done, right?
    Ever since I sent the email message to the domain admin for the
porn site, my name and server address has been showing up in each
and every gnutella response. Cause and effect (and a bit more) leads
me to believe that the porn site was 'tella' and they are not happy
that I've cut into their revenue stream.
    With a bit of investigative work I was able to tie the user who
is spamming gnutella with the user who admins the porn site and more 
than two dozen other domains.
    I've got the guy booted off a number of services in the past
couple days but that isn't much help (though it does make me feel a
bit better). It's like playing wack the mole; hit him in one place
and he pops up again elsewhere. I'm getting hundreds of email
messages from people either looking for child porn or wanting me
dead for supplying child porn. (Of note, of course, I don't have
any child porn so stop asking.)
    I've contacted the FBI's computer crimes division and I'm sure
they are far more interested in the folks emailing me looking for 
kiddie porn than they are in getting rid of the slime ball spamming 
my email address. At least the kiddie porn angle got their attention
or I imagine this wouldn't have even made their radar.
    I'm already filtering my email so that I don't have to read
through hoards of email. (Did I mention that he has also signed
me up to dozens of mailing lists?) While tracking and smacking
the first day was exciting, today it's a bit of a drag.
    Any good ideas will return my eternal gratitude.