From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 09:17:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B7816A407; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:17:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from ns2.twenty4help.se (ns2.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C7543D53; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:17:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by ns2.twenty4help.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8L9FnPL021596; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:15:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <45125885.2060209@401.cx> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:16:53 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Martin References: <20060920104047.GA49442@splork.wirewater.yow> <20060920185542.GE1075@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Party X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:17:06 -0000 Adam Martin wrote: [snip] > Boy, between spam, sshd-bruteforce attempts, and tons of other > stuff.... the 'net has become such an annoying place these days. Every > year this stuff seems to just get worse... *sigh* All this net-trash > gives me a headache. What a waste of technology, resources, and bandwidth. What bothers me is that all these probes, scans, spams etc still succeeds in some cases, otherwise nobody would be doing them. As long as people click on spamlinks and leave their systems open to automated intrusion, we will have to live with this kind of behavior. But, as you say, it is a damn waste. -- R