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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested)
On 24 Jun 1998 11:29:22 -0400, Ryan K. Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: |Had a new box on the net for all of two hours, and this pops up on in my |maillog: |It looks to me like someone on the host at erols tried to relay through |me, and then mail the potential results to themselves at fnord.net |(relayed via oneill.net). | |Is someone attempting to perform a community service here and scan the |entire Internet for relays, or are they collecting relays for evil |purposes? I can see it now; buy "10 million relay sites on a cdrom for |$9.99". You know the phrase "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"? Well, guilty as charged. The original intent was to scan the net for relays to try to get some data on how many open relays were still out there. I got almost all of 204.0.0.0/8 scanned, but I've stopped scanning due to the volume of complaints and the few legal threats I've gotten. I have _no_ intention of doing any more scanning. Overall, people's responses have been positive once I explained what the intent was, but the legal threats have given me sufficent motive to cease any further scanning.[1] FWIW, I'd like to publicly apologize to everyone that's seen this for the trouble, I've caused. If anyone has any questions about this, please feel free to mail me. 1. I won't be doing any more scanning. Really.
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