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Date:      Fri, 02 May 1997 23:51:44 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
To:        jgrosch@sirius.com
Cc:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SPAM target
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970502235144.00b040f4@mixcom.com>

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At 11:45 AM 5/2/97 -0700, 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 <configurable interval>
>>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.
>
>Terry, that is a diabolically clever idea! 

Hmmm... guess THAT would teach them to send to -hackers.

ROFL!


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MIX Communications
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