[vox-tech] Why change default ssh port?

[Rod Roark]

On Friday 16 June 2006 17:31, Rick Moen wrote:
...
> 3.  We Were Here First.  Speaking for myself, I'll be damned if I'll
> abandon port 22 just because a bunch of cretin kiddies and Russian
> mafiosi with automated 'sploit code and dictionary files want to conduct
> doorknob-twisting on it.  Likewise, it's beneath my dignity to obscure
> my e-mail address just because someone might try to send it adverts for 
> dubious investment opportunities.  Do those guys think they're better at
> Internet management than the open-source technical community is?   Well,
> they're wrong, and they can kiss my shiny Exim rulesets.

LOL.  Rick, this is priceless.  I hope you memorialize it somewhere besides
just the LUGOD archives.

Rod