News from PANUG/BizNix - October 31, 2003
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SORRY
For most of you, this seems to be a duplicate of a
message sent earlier today. The earlier message was
rejected by many of your mail servers as "unwanted mail",
where unwanted mail = the 4 letter word that starts
with s, is followed by p, then by a, and finally an m.
This is because one of the acticles covered unwanted mail
and used words that mail filters didn't like. From
now on, any articles that use words that will tend to
block the message will be placed on the PANUG or BizNix
web site, as we've done below.


THE NEWEST AND THE BEST?
by Lloyd Betts

This article questions how many companies will be able to
use Windows Server 2003 given that many of Microsoft's
own programs will not work with it: http://panug.org/55


BOSTON UNIVERSITY & MICROSOFT
See: http://panug.org/news/adelstein.html


MICROSOFT EARNINGS REPORT
See: http://panug.org/news/earnings.html


BLOCKING UNWANTED MAIL WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
See: http://panug.org/news/regex.html


BLOCKING NETBIOS & MICROSOFT RPC PORTS
by Ed Sawicki - Accelerated Learning Center / Tailored Computers

Numerous organizations keep the NETBIOS and Microsoft RPC
ports open to the outside world because of Microsoft
Exchange and Outlook features they "need". To security-
focused IT staff who know these are protocols frequently
used for attacks, keeping the ports open to the outside
seems like the act of a madman. Heated exchanges between
departments often results. User departments usually prevail
(You can't run a business without a shared calendar.)

One solution is to try to educate upper management.
Yesterday, SANS published this link to a document that
tries to achieve this as well as proposes an alternative:

http://www.sans.org/rr/special/acme.pdf

If this works for anyone, please let us know.


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