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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
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Subject: Re: SPAM target
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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.