Concurrent with every post . . .

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:11 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> I get these via httpd:
> 
> spam003.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp - - [14/Feb/2005:22:06:31 -0500]
> "GET /rbldnsd.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 17713 "-" "-"
> spam003.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp - - [14/Feb/2005:22:06:33 -0500]
> "GET /spam_trap.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 8842 "-" "-"
> 
> Note that they get the links in my signature. I don't care. I'm just
> curious what/why. BTW, the client corresponds to U. of Tokyo.

Every time I do a post, my SMTP server gets a connection from cern.ch
but it doesn't issue a MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN command before dropping the
connection. It's a good job everyone on the list doesn't do abusive
callbacks of this variety, because it would amount to a DDOS attack if
they did.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>