[6785] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quick update #2 (Sprint continues to defend network terrorism)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Murray)
Mon Jan 6 09:49:04 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:46:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Murray <pem@po.cwru.edu>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701042121.AA20455@world.std.com>
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Barry Shein wrote:
> Just got off the phone with Sprint Security again, they absolutely
> refuse to stop the continuing (as of 15:40 EST Sat 1/4/97) mail
> bombing / mail loop of world.std.com from iq-internet.com, about 1,000
> msgs today so far, well into the third full day of this.
Please pardon a lurker for jumping in for a moment, but this whole thing
seems blown out of proportion. Your message, sent about 4:00pm, said you
received 1,000 messages so far in that day. 4:00pm is 16 hours, or 960
minutes into the day. So, on the average, you received one message a minute
(correct?). Unless these are very large messages, it hardly seems worth the
discussion here. I'm not even sure if falls into the category of "mail
bombing" or "terrorism"; "mail loop" and "ignorance", perhaps...
Peter
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