[99890] in RedHat Linux List
Re: security advice requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brent Sims)
Tue Nov 17 13:00:52 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:59:26 -0700 (MST)
From: Brent Sims <brent@rmi.net>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
->
->That's the point of communicating with the ISP which owns the
->originating addresses, and "tell don't sell"; if this is the only
->"incident" that's ever reported with that user, then nothing will come
->of it.
Hang on a minute... just two weeks ago a spam complaint was filed
with my ISP by someone who had subscribed to a low traffic mailing list
that I run and then forgot that they had. They also took the liberty
of complaining here and there... Now I've been with the same ISP for
over two years now, my bill is current, and this was the first complaint
of any type that they or any other Internet organization had ever received
regarding little ol' me. And I'm still trying to recover from the fallout.
A valid complaint is one thing... pipe dreams are another. And as
someone who telnets into his own box as a matter of course, I can tell you
in no uncertain terms that it often takes me more than 4 attempts and I
don't even have a password on my user account.
Assuming you owned the box, what are you gonna do? Shoot me
cause I can't type my name, while trying to talk on the phone, drink a cup
of coffee and scratch my _____ all at the same time?
Peace be with you,
Brent Sims
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