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Fortunately, gnus has gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article.
Unfortunately not everybody has that feature.  Please see
http://ursine.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php/Top_Posting

"Gilbert, Joseph" <jgilbert@insuresuite.com> writes:

> Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@ursine.dyndns.org] wrote:
>
>> nmap can do that, just be sure to only use ping scanning to avoid port
>> scanning everyone (time consuming and may infuriate anal retentive
>> pinheads who have been mis-promoted to network administration status).
>
> Reminds me of some funny stories I have from when I worked in abuse at an
> ISP.

Alright!  A war story!  I used to work tech support myself...got sick
of it, did security for a while, got a better paying job as the
shipping clerk at $LOCAL_COMPUTER_STORE.  A pretty good job, get to
fill in for a tech every once in a while when we're low on techs
instead of letting some pointy-haired luser on the other end of a
couple thousand miles of copper be my eyes and hands...

> One such pinhead called up and demanded to know why we were scanning
> port 53 on his network.  Turns out a domain was registered that
> pointed to non-existent name servers on his network and they were
> using the domain to send mail.

I always found it annoying when people would call me up asking about
how to interpret their (non-syslog) wannabee-logfile output.  "How
should I know?  We didn't give or sell it to you, so we don't support
it. RTFM!"
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