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Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

  • From: Len Rose
  • Date: Fri Feb 28 20:24:18 2003 
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