RE: [SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out

[James Thomason <james () divide org>]

If I did, and they responded negatively, I would tell them YOU said it was
a good idea.

Seriously, why should the administrators of *.army.mil care if I test
packet response time between our networks?  Is this an illegal activity I
am unaware of?  

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

> At 02:16 PM 10/26/2001 -0500, Quibell, Marc wrote:
>  >
>  >Maybe you should ping NS01.ARMY.MIL about 2400 times in 3 hour and see if
>  >you don't get a visit? Pinging a website 2 times means nothing..
>
> How about 441 times in 2 hours? :)
>
>
>  >Marc
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick