Re: I found this today and iam reporting it to you first!!! (fwd)

[ticm () POP SOFTHOME NET (Bret Watson)]

Beleive me, its still there - often... WHy is it left open? mainly because
the INetwork admin who setup the firewall found it too hard to fix - I'd say..

Cheers,

Bret

At 10:51 PM 9/4/99 +1200, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Technical Incursion Countermeasures wrote:
>
> > You can do a variation on this one (well sort opf - is a logstanding prob)
>
> This used to be a favourite trick played on spammer autoresponders
> several years ago.
>
> Why would anyone leave this kind of hole open after all this time?
>
> AB
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