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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:02:29AM -0600, Pete Kruckenberg stated: [snip] > By this reasoning, I could never send an email or make a > phone call or go visit everyone (especially a new > acquaintance), because if /everyone/ sent them an email, or > called them, or visited them, it would certainly be > unwelcome (and possibly cause injury). My singular action is > within the range considered fair and reasonable, where > everyone doing it (or in fact, even just a few dozen people > doing it) would probably not. therefore, given current technology, it is up to the receiver to state when he/she/they no longer wish to receive traffic of type X (be it network probes well-intentioned or otherwise). And it is up to the sender to STOP sending said traffic upon receipt of such a statement. Not to reply saying, "We've done nothing wrong, we're just trying to improve network performance" (note that this performance gain is obviously not going to be on the receivers' side; at least not during the scans) and continue the inappropriate traffic. As with many things, there is a need for common sense and common courtesy. Neither of which are nearly as common as they should be. > Pete. -- Scott Francis [email protected] [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager [email protected] [work:] t o n o s . c o m UNIX | IP networks | security | sysadmin | caffeine | BOFH | general geekery GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui Attachment:
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