[56245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anti-spam vs network abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Len Rose)
Fri Feb 28 20:23:16 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:20:19 -0500
From: Len Rose <len@netsys.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E18ouQT-0000eM-00@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
