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Re: Needin some assistance!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:56:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
> 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.
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> 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...
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> > (who works for a company that techinically got "hit", but like smart people,
> > atually *apply* security patches, and wasn't affected.)
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> heh, don't you mean that smart people don't run IIS? *GD&R*
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> :)
Depends on your definition of smart. We make a lot of money supporting
people who use IIS.... <GRIN>
James
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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