Some more information

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not grateful for your support, as the open source model demands the participation of all.  After our post yesterday about the Paper-Based Junkmail Distributed Denial of Service attack (PBJ DDoS) we received a great deal of information from you, helping us to fill in the missing details.

Many of you indicated that you had been recruited via paper mail to send letters on behalf of a mailing company, and that you had been promised that you would receive compensation for the materials.  All but a very few of our supporters ignored the letter and soon forgot about it.  A few of you, however, did as the letter suggested.  (Note: Our lawyers would like to point out that those who did as the letter suggested are more aptly labeled "former supporters" of "provisional supporters" as their lack of judgment in this case calls into question their fitness for the New Future)

Based on our research, it appears that the entity behind this campaign was none other than the New Company, and that they thought they would avoid our scrutiny by using nearly-obsolete paper mail.  They did use one of their sister companies to avoid the liability from the sure-to-come lawsuits, but it was clearly carried out on the orders of the New Company.  They appear to have purloined postage from several legitimate enterprises to send their solicitations, and they appear to have, not surprisingly, not paid any of their recruits.

The total cost to the New Company for this attack, then, was minimal.  They effectively distributed the postage cost to their recruits, and they even made the recruits use their own toner and paper to print the letters, essentially creating a botnet out of unsuspecting individuals around the world.  We had hoped that some of the letters had come from actual robots, but I guess we can't always get our way.  Here's hoping that next time someone launches a PBJ DDoS that it will use real robots!