Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1561-997284324-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18380 invoked by uid 510); 8 Aug 2001 14:27:34 -0000 Received: from n23.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.73) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2001 14:27:34 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1561-997284324-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by ck.egroups.com with NNFMP; 08 Aug 2001 15:25:25 -0000 X-Sender: ellisd@cs.ucsb.edu X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 8 Aug 2001 15:25:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 53388 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2001 15:23:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Aug 2001 15:23:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n5.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.10.44) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2001 15:23:26 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: ellisd@cs.ucsb.edu Received: from [10.1.10.105] by hl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 08 Aug 2001 15:23:25 -0000 To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <9krlhd+8715@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJBDJCGCKGDILPNNEIEACGIAA.junkmail@barnowl.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 128.29.4.2 From: ellisd@cs.ucsb.edu Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 15:23:25 -0000 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] Re: Why do you track Code Red attempts? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Are you usually satisfied with knowing only that an earthquake happened and not what magnitude it was? Part of it is the "empathy" (aka "morbid curiosity") factor that non-geeks have. The geeks just call it curiosity (the "because it's there" answer). An earthquake, however, is admittedly an inadequate example: we didn't create the earthquake and we didn't created the earth wherein we dwell. However, we did create the internet and we did put our servers on it and we did participate indirectly in propagating the attacks. It's entirely our monster. The monster is the community we created. The whole problem evokes a sense of community out of me. Who knows, maybe living in California really tripped me out socially, but I find it odd that somebody wouldn't want to understand what is going on in this community and do what they can to foster "awareness" (oh, no--I am a Californian!) and do their part to solve the problem locally with the hope of improving the community. The numbers thing is the socially-inclined (darned PC) geek's way of saying "I care". --- In iwar@y..., "JunkMail Rosenberger" <junkmail@b...> wrote: > A serious question -- why do so many people track the Code Red attempts on > their servers? Do they merely succumb to morbid curiosity? Do they hope to > save the Internet by tracking down the owner of every compromised machine? > Did they not receive any Melissa/ILoveYou/Kournikova emails and now they > just want to feel like they're part of the crowd? Do they want to prove > they know enough to calculate a (useless) personal number? What gives? > > Again, I ask this question in all seriousness. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Small business owners... Tell us what you think! http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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