From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 13:38:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21748 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 13:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21739 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 13:38:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id GAA04076; Sat, 3 May 1997 06:38:11 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 06:38:10 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: jgrosch@sirius.com cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM target In-Reply-To: <199705021845.LAA06944@superior.mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 May 1997, Josef Grosch wrote: > Terry Lambert said: > >Of course, if someone wanted to build a little program to connect to > >their smtp server and send an "RSET\r\n" every > >to keep the smtp server process alive and it's pages in core... > > > >And then if a certain mailing list of someone's friends were made aware > >of the URL to pick up their copy of the program... > > > >And then if it's realized that Linux is a memory overcommit architecture... > > > >It seems to me that this hypothetical person would play hell with their > >ability to start spam sending processes. > > > >It seems to me. > > > > > > Terry, that is a diabolically clever idea! The nice thing is that it would only require a single SMTP connection from every conspirator. The thing *I'd* like to know is how to get Earthlink to stop allowing relay. I've e-mailed them the sendmail rules on how to do it, so they can't claim ignorance. Danny