[Info-vax] "$ SET VERIFY" obsolete

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-04-22 04:06, George Cornelius wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> It's not so much a security thing as it is just trying to keep harvesters
>> from getting the URL only to bang on the site with stupid hacks that will
>> degrade my bandwidth even more.
>
> I guess since I don't have a website to protect I don't think about that
> particular kind of harvesting.
>
> When using Eisner to post to Usenet I have noticed a pattern: you
> get a burst of spam a short time after posting, but within a week or
> two it drops back down to background levels.  Not quite as bad as the
> old days, when Usenet was important enough that spammers could buy CD's
> with addresses harvested from the newsgroups.

You should see the logs for my RSX system. It is funny how much crap I 
see in there from people probing it for known Unix vulnerabilities. And 
it's been going on for almost a year now. No end in sight. Glad I have 
enormous bandwidth though...

	Johnny