[Info-vax] "$ SET VERIFY" obsolete

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kl3mi7$a3p$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 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...
 
I would not be surprised to see people still trying all the old sendmail
vulnerabilities even though I exepct there are very few people still
trying use it today.

bill

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