From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 21:51:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA12209 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 21:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA12204 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 21:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id XAA22816; Fri, 2 May 1997 23:52:26 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma022753; Fri May 2 23:52:06 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970502235144.00b040f4@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 23:51:44 -0500 To: jgrosch@sirius.com From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: SPAM target Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 >>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! ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990