Re: Abuse

["E, M" <freehold () EROLS COM>]

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John, what services if any do you have running?  Are the probes from
the same machine each time?  Are they from a machine within your cable
network (or another dsl)?  What is your level of expectation when you
notify the sysadmin -- is this originating network in, say, China?  Or
Korea?  The box could be thoroughly owned.   Your emails may not even
be reaching the right person, for a variety of reasons.  They may not
be understood.  They may be discarded.  The 'other guy' may view the
scanning as 'nuisance'.  The contact info may be out of date.

Take your contact upstream.  cIf I'm really interested/annoyed, I call
the sysadmin directly.  Never regretted it, either - the vast majority
are great.  :)

Missy


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