"portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

Sun May 19 03:46:21 UTC 2002

[ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 20:15:10 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
>
> Apologies; my finger was a bit too quick on the 'g'. As this message came to
> the list, I will assume it is safe to cc the list on my reply. Sorry about
> that last.

Apology accepted, but I strongly recommend you learn to use some more
reliable mail reader software -- something that doesn't accidentally
invent reply addresses!  There was no hint that my message to you was in
any way associated with the NANOG list -- it was delivered directly to
you and CC'd only to the person you were responding to.  Some outside
influence had to have associated it with having been a reply to a list
posting and connected your desire to reply with inclusion of the list
submission address.  According to your reply's headers you're using
Mutt-1.3.25i, and according to the Mutt manual 'g' is the group-reply
command.  I don't find any hint in the description of that command to
indicate that it will magically associate a given message with a list,
especially one that was not received from the list.  Even the
'list-reply' command should not be able to associate a private reply
with the list address.  If Mutt really does magically associate private
replies with list addresses by some mysterious mechanism then it's even
more broken than I suspected.....

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