Re: [dispatch] Proposal for scantxt; scanning opt-in/out, identification, verification, notification, and reporting

[John Levine <[e-mail]>]

It appears that Stephen Farrell  <[e-mail]> said:
>mostly try do something like this, so there could well be
>value in a standard location that can be found from a source
>IP address at which some pointers/hints can be found.

The de-facto convention is that you put a web server with an
explanation at each IP doing the scanning.

I can see why the people doing the scanning would want all this stuff,
but I can't see why the victims of the probes would have any reason to
go to any effort to make their lives easier. Most scanning is in
practice malicious, even if the people doing the probing make excuses
that it isn't.

I am reminded of efforts about two decades ago in which spammers
wanted to build elaborate schemes so we could tell them exactly which
kinds of spam we did and didn't want. If you have to ask, the answer
is no.

R's,
John