@Home Nederland - port scans are OK

[Jude <judeb () TECHEMAIL COM>]

Somebody at nl.home.com probed my FTP port, right after the
recent wu-ftpd exploit was announced on Bugtraq.  I sent off
a report to abuse () home nl.  Their reply includes the following
statements:

        Actions of @Home customers are considered to be abuse
        if they are in breach of our current AUP.  A copy of our
        AUP can be read at
                http://www.home.nl/product/voorwaarden3.html
        ...
        ...
        * Portscanning is not a violation of our AUP.

This policy would explain why crackers would want to use
nl.home.com for portscanning.

I could not access the AUP URL; maybe it's inaccessible outside
of their networks.

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