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Re: Needin some assistance!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:16:07 GMT
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James Brown wrote:
> You think that's stupid; one of our major (Major!) regional providers,
> Telus, responded to the "Red Worm Threat" by arbitrarily (and without
> warning or notification) refusing SMTP access to a large variety of domains.
> This included Chris' Graysage domain, which runs our mailing list, so a
> couple people got chopped off our mailing list until Telus removed it's head
> from it's posterior.
SMTP?!? gah, they just chose a port in random to turn off?? Reminds me of our provider during y2k - decided to "play it safe" and shut down the whole network... so they did that, but apparently were so incompetent that they _failed_ to shut it down... I was browsing cnn all night, while forced to stay at work...
> (who works for a company that techinically got "hit", but like smart people,
> atually *apply* security patches, and wasn't affected.)
heh, don't you mean that smart people don't run IIS? *GD&R*
:)
Dan
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