In article <20000924175334.A46043@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:

A large part of it is probably that very few administrators set of warning bells on a single ping, but a substantial fraction of mail administrators get floods of e-mail warnings from the mail testing programs, wasting their time and energy.

When you scan properly locked down boxes in a way that fills an admins mailbox they get testy.

http://www.nfr.net/forum/publications/id-myths.html -- Shields.