Yesterday my HP3000 was attacked by our friends in shining armor, saviors
of the world from spam, ORBS.  I have been running the 2 User, Freeware
version of Netmail/3000, and, until this attack have had no trouble and
minimal maintenance.  The reason I run Netmail is to keep in touch with
the idea that the HP3000 is a network capable system and with the idea
that there is an alternative to sendmail.

What I found late yesterday afternoon, and again this morning, are 2
processes SMTPSERV.SYS.THREEK and SMTPOUT.SYS.THREEK monopolizing the CS
queue, one at 200 and the other at 152.  I had never seen this before the
attack.

#1  I am sure there are reasonable fixes for whatever the problem is with
    Netmail and the SMTP processes.  I am also sure that there are ways to
    satisfy the attacks from ORBS.  However, right now, because of other
    high priority work, I'm just going  to shutoff Netmail.

#2  Which is the issue that burns me, is ORBS.  Where does this group of
    cavalier, if not downright arrogant, SO...s (That is Saviors of the
    World) get it's right to attack my system on a regular basis?

Bruce.
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  Bruce J. Senn                               Phone:  (518) 388-6664
  Senior System Manager                       FAX:    (518) 388-6458
  Union College                     Internet:  [log in to unmask]
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