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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:55:35 -0700
To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart), jbryant@unix.tfs.net
From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Secure Ping 1.0]
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At 10:29 PM 6/11/98 +0100, Niall Smart wrote:
>On Jun 11,  1:28pm, Jamie Lawrence wrote:

>> I don't think it would do much of anything to curb nasty practices
>> on the net, except for limiting the relatively unsophisticated types
>> who, say, use flood.c against spam sites and quake servers.
>>
>> Exactly the type of user I tend to use a rather more course grained
>> resource limit on, and kick them off my system.
>
>:) Yes, resource limitation is no panacea, the main goal of the idea is
>for ISP's to ration bandwith among their customers, and secondly to stop
>these kind of idiots from doing too much damage before you boot them off.

Definitely useful for that. I tend to forget about ISP dilemmas...

If implemented, I'd suggest a soft-limit to warn people that their
telnet sessions are about to stop responding, etc.

-j

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