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Date:      Fri, 2 May 1997 15:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        jgrosch@sirius.com, fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chuckr@mat.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SPAM target
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970502153803.29889H-100000@dolphin.inna.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705021815.LAA09090@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Temping as it might be, a Ping 'o' Death attack might bring us more truble
> > then we want. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> It seems to me.

What's that URL again?

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.




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