Subj : Re: Internet's Ravishing Orcs (was "Noticed that...")
To   : Arelor
From : tenser
Date : Fri Feb 18 2022 07:18:16

On 16 Feb 2022 at 06:48p, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar> I am then curious as to what your setups must be. My experience is that
 Ar> if you set a webservice using a popular CMS, bots will start spamming it
 Ar> to death as soon as they discover it. Same thing with SMTP servers. Even
 Ar> if your server is clever enough to discard spammers on sight, the very
 Ar> act of taking them and discarding them eats away a good chunk of
 Ar> computing power.

Mostly commercial VPSen running some dialect of Unix (usually
OpenBSD or FreeBSD).  I run SMTP in a few places but it's my
sense that aside from automated scans for open relays, I don't
notice much spam on those.  I avoid most CMS software, web
software is either static content or servers I wrote myself.

The scans are the background noise of the Internet these days,
but don't seem to cause a lot of problems.  Maybe my stuff is
too pedestrian to rate; kind of like the few remaining PDP-10s
on the Internet.  No one bothers breaking into them.

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