anti-spam vs network abuse

Sat Mar 1 01:20:19 UTC 2003

Hi,

Why is it clearly untrue? Remember when researchers used
to send announcements out beforehand? I do.

Well, you're taking me too literally of course!

Len

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:00:25PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Scanning is always a precursor to an attack
> 
> this is clearly not true, as scans are done for research and
> other goals.
> 
> and conversely, all attacks are not preceded by scanning.
> 
> randy