> >> ... but people are attacking seemingly random IPs, including ones in a > >> new ARIN block that have not yet been assigned/used for anything. > >> What do they think they're attacking? > > > > Civilization. > > You call this civilisation?
Since I'm just now rereading e. e. "doc" smith's "Lensman" series, I took the answer in that context, and I completely agree. Not so much that it's what "we" are, that it's what "they" are fighting against. But I moralize. -- Paul Vixie