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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Matt Ghali wrote: > > I think the lesson here is that any service you make available to the public > > (NTP, DNS, IRC, SMTP, whatever) is going to be used in ways that do not > > match with your desires. If you're not willing to ACL/police the service, > > you're going to have to accept that people are going to use it in ways you'd > > rather they didn't. > > The repeated suggestions that the best response to this sort of situation is > to 'deal with it' are saddening. Did he "deserve it" because of the short > skirt he was wearing? And, if a service were available to the public *as a matter of courtesy* (or even as a matter of accident) and not *advertised to the public*, then those using the [unadvertised] service must cope if and when the service disappears, or even starts misbehaving deliberately. -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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