Cron Errors

[Craig White]

I understand the teergrube now...I followed the link.

I also know that it took 1:18 & 1:17 to send jlf 2 very short e-mails (I
checked the logs...6 hours was an exageration). It wasn't however a 30
second wait.

I even understand how it 'legally' discourages spam and I suppose that I'm
glad that jlf is so adament about employing the method. It seems to me that
the cure is as bad as the problem...but hey, it's my choice not to employ it
I guess.

I see hacking as a far more serious problem and I know now that these
distro's are lobbing up softballs for hackers to use your computer as a
place to park their tools and hack at other computers if they can't find
stuff of value on your network.

I can only imagine how bad the insanely great stuff that eminates from
Redmond is getting whacked by 'crackers' - I see how many probes are being
sent for Netbios responses. I see why we are talking about setting up
laptops with linux - awesome portable security checker / network
troubleshooter.

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of D.
> Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:07 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Cron Errors
>
>
>
> Actually, the teergrube is ingenious, pure Eeevil, and
> fully SMTP compliant, all rolled into one.
>
> The basic idea is this:  A Linux or FreeBSD system
> running on a 386 with 8M of RAM can process trillions
> of mail messages per second.  If a spammer is able to
> use your system, say, starting on a Friday night, by
> the time you realize what's happening on Monday morning,
> your system has annoyed moles and moles of users.  The
> spammer really likes your system because it's so fast.
> Now imagine introducing, say, an intentional thirty-
> second delay on each message.  Thirty seconds isn't
> that long for a user to wait for his mail, but to a
> spammer, your system suddenly becomes A LOT less
> attractive.  For the IP addresses of your friends,
> you can configure the teergrube to hand off the
> connection to your real MTA (qmail or sendmail)
> without any delay.
>