Think of this as an interesting experiment in reputation building, where the bad guys won, and got a lot of business from the ignorant. Remember Fred Cohen, the lunatic who had his telnet port booby-trapped to fire off complaints to root and postmaster? http://www.atria.com/People/dawson/tbtf/archive/04-14-96.html http://www.dhp.com/amusement.html http://all.net/journal/netsec/top.html http://all.net/journal/netsec/9603.html http://all.net/journal/netsec/9604.html I feel so sorry for Keith. He was trolled in a big way. I also found this AMAZING BREAKTHROUGH in preventing IP spoofing very amusing: http://all.net/journal/netsec/9606.html -rich