Re: Being baned for having sockescap5 running?

Andy Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.bopm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:38:24PM -0500, TJ Dietsch wrote:
> 
>    Hello...I'm a little confused.  I ran sockescap5 once on this computer
>    with a proxy...why is this grounds to be baned?  Yes...I'm sure it was
>    an  open  proxy but I was not using it for any bad purposes...Any help
>    would be appreciated!

If it's an open proxy then it won't be just you using it for very
long.  You may not be concerned about your connectivity being used
to attack others and send illegal/fraudulent/pornographic spam, but
we do.

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