Note this happened in January and is just now being reported.

FEBRUARY 12, 20:45 EST

E-Mails Flood Wyoming Web Provider

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP)  A company that provides Internet service was flooded with hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages recently that could be the work of computer hackers, the owner said.

Cyberhighway of Snowy Range received about 250,000 e-mail messages Jan. 25 that overwhelmed the company's systems and caused some customers to experience e-mail delays of up to 48 hours.

Lance Lewis, owner of Cyberhighway, said the e-mail onslaught was similar to what happened to Yahoo and other sites that came under recent attack by computer hackers. The e-mails could not simply be erased because some of them may have been legitimate, he said.

The company was flooded again with e-mails about a week later but Lewis attributed the trouble to an electronic greeting card service with a server malfunction.

E-mail overloads occurred about twice a year, for various reasons, Lewis said.

Cyberhighway has about 30,000 customers nationwide

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-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 12, 2000