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Re: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Sat Nov 18 23:51:52 2000

Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:49:28 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: 'Scott Call' <scall@devolution.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <47FE39302BF73B4C93BC84B87341282C1EF8@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:19:12PM -0800
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On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:19:12PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> You are considering killing off a whole bunch of legitimate use because
> some are too brain-dead to not have unintentional shares on the internet?

well, maybe if there was a global filter on SMB then the brain-dead company
that produces the brain-dead software will wake up and realize that maybe
it shouldn't produce software that by default leaves their users open
to intrusion or viruses.

geez, if the filter was there, are you saying that people who _need_ SMB
shares are too brain-dead to come up with a straight forward way to make
it get around the filter?

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