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Ticks me off that someone is using the timesucker hostname for this
purpose.  I've used that as the hostname for my home linux machine for
almost 10 years.

MEG

On 9/17/05, dsr at tao.merseine.nu <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:45:55PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
> > 1. This looks like a dictionary attack, but my wife is a nurse and
> > she has used epocrates, although not with either "cresler" or "mosher" as
> > a user name: is it a probe?
> >
> > 2005-09-16 23:25:36 verify failed for SMTP recipient
> > CRESLER at TIMESUCKER.HOMELINUX.ORG from
> > <0640908066008.3953720 at b.prod.survey.epocrates.com>
> > H=(smtp.epocrates.com) [63.241.66.159]
> 
> Yeah, probably.
> 
> > 2. Will disabling verify break anything?
> 
> No. Expecting VRFY to work is obsolete.
> 
> -dsr-
> 
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