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Re: DDOS attacks lately?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Sun Aug 20 13:38:06 2000

Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:43:10 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:24:43AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> Hence, if all the IRC networks would implement Chanserv, and educate users,
> these attacks would decrease.

	Actually, then they get directed at the services, their
upstream hubs, etc.  Trust me on this.  As long as IRC is running
in some way, shape, or form, you have a very big bullseye placed
on your network.

	--msa


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