RE: FW: BLOCK: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers

[David Honig]

At 08:27 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Tom Vogt wrote:
>as a matter of fact, *probing* my machine is nothing I'm worried about.

What's 'probing'?  Has some State defined certain TCP ports as 'public'
and some as not?  Where's the RFC?

[Not directed at Tom]