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From: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: Worm report fails to address the problem
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Date: 27 Jul 89 15:42:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: scs@itivax.iti.org's message of 27 Jul 89 12:21:28 GMT

I would like to make a small echo of the sentiment to avoid making the
entire Internet into an open hunting ground for any form of attack.
My most visible systems are also the ones which work the hardest, and
they can't _all_ afford a day off each month.

On the other hand, I would be extremely interested if I could offer,
for example, one of my systems (or perhaps one of each type) once a
month as an open-season victim testbed.  If a list of such
available-for-abuse systems could be compiled, we could accomplish the
goals both of having a large pool of available victims and keeping the
bulk of the Internet still operating sanely even during such abusive
testing.

Would anyone care to register ABUSE.NET, containing nothing but CNAMEs
for available systems?  Anyone wanting to test could set their system
up as a secondary server, thus giving them a dump of the available
masochists.

Just a thought,
--Karl