On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Matt Ghali wrote:
I think the lesson here is that any service you make available to the public (NTP, DNS, IRC, SMTP, whatever) is going to be used in ways that do not match with your desires. If you're not willing to ACL/police the service, you're going to have to accept that people are going to use it in ways you'd rather they didn't.
The repeated suggestions that the best response to this sort of situation is to 'deal with it' are saddening. Did he "deserve it" because of the short skirt he was wearing?
And, if a service were available to the public *as a matter of courtesy* (or even as a matter of accident) and not *advertised to the public*, then those using the [unadvertised] service must cope if and when the service disappears, or even starts misbehaving deliberately. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>