On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Chris Keladis wrote:

> Wouldn't it be possible to detect telnet negotiation (OOB) going on and
> drop the connection?

Several products at least used to do this- I recall the phrase "Not a
typewriter" coming back from a relay test several years ago.

> I agree with Paul however, these measures wont stop abuse of tcp/25, but
> it makes an interesting thread at least :)

Unfortunately it's curing the symptom not the disease.  I'm also not sure
that it wouldn't encourage more of the kiddies to get netcat if it were
more pervasive.

Paul
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