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Article #127Re: @Home Blacklisted by ORBS on 9 of 10 New Email Servers
From: John Higdon
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:06
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:06
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in article MPG.14cb17861394b8e8989f4a@207.126.101.100, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > There are a significant group of people in the sysadmin and/or > computer security field that consider simple network scanning > to be a malicious act - indeed there has been (to my knowledge) > some degree of effort to criminalize such activities - ie > port scanning. And if they cannot differentiate an ORBS probe from a malicious attack, then they need to find other work. > So I don't think anyone in their right mind would ever try to > claim that something like ORBS probes are "denial of service", > but there are quite a few people that consider it at the very > least "rude" and perhaps even "malicious". It has never brought down my little teapot here. I have four servers, scanned regularly. BFD. > I will add that since ORBS by their own admission simply scans > for servers which "may potentially be used for spam" rather > than servers which have any proven association with it -- the > repeated scanning of servers which have proven - over and over > again - to be NOT vulnerable.. is easily taken as an unecessary > and even abusive practice. I suppose so...for folks who have nothing better to do with their time. -- John Higdon | Email Address Valid | http://www.anntec.com/ +1 408 264 4115 | Silicon Valley, CA | FAX: +1 408 264 4407 Cheap, provincial San Franciscans can call: 415 428-COWS
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113850,20ce3a920b14a2e4 X-Google-Attributes: gid113850,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,20ce3a920b14a2e4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-14 12:16:10 PST User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:06:49 -0800 Subject: Re: @Home Blacklisted by ORBS on 9 of 10 New Email Servers From: John Higdon <no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems.cable,ba.internet Message-ID: <B68746D8.30BB8%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> References: <3A4997AD.B58ACAD5@spamcop.net> <K0s26.6731$Sl.349652@iad-read.news.verio.net> <G697qz.Irs@kithrup.com> <slrn94le7k.rp.plew@crane.li-po.edu> <G6B3qv.7zq@kithrup.com> <slrn94o0h6.ct.plew@crane.li-po.edu> <vohr92ryhh3.fsf@yuban-c.math.berkeley.edu> <slrn94pj6v.gk.plew@crane.li-po.edu> <vohbstvdm0j.fsf@yuban-c.math.berkeley.edu> <6a9q4tgqbrpml7futqmgt60brs5ct0340v@4ax.com> <B672790D.2F3EC%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <3A4D7517.DE3709D5@dvv.org> <B672BB7E.2F427%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <92k15k01s2p@enews3.newsguy.com> <B6736206.2F49D%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <867l4hrybw.fsf@cartero.kjsl.com> <B6740234.2F556%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <MPG.14cb17861394b8e8989f4a@207.126.101.100> Mime-version: 1.0 Organization: Green Hills and Cows Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.161.250.162 X-Trace: 14 Jan 2001 12:06:49 -0800, 131.161.250.162 Lines: 34 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.announcetech.com!131.161.250.162