> In one sense, isn't this what ORBZ was doing? Port Scanning everyone, > and sending in unsolicited emails because they want to test other people's > systems without them asking for permission to do so?
ORBZ was not "Port Scanning" ORBZ was only after being notified of an open relay seeing for them selves if in fact the relay was open. Yes, I guess if you had an extremely fundamental view on unauthorized network use, ORBZ was in the wrong. But what ORBZ was doing was no different than what the police do every day, baiting suspects to commit crimes so that evidence could be gathered, and the criminals could be prosecuted. > But can you see the irony in it? SPAM is bad because it uses the recipient ISP's resources > without his/her permission for their own purposes... ORBZ digs into the ISP's > (or anyone's) resources without his/her permission for their own purposes... ORBZ may use the end-users resources to a slight degree, but not nearly as many resources as many spammers do. The data that ORBZ sends in the process of testing an SMTP server is extremely negligible when compared to the data transfer necessary to transport Spam/UCE/UBE. -Corey Travioli --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
