[76009] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miller, Mark)
Mon Nov 29 17:27:54 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:27:28 -0700
From: "Miller, Mark" <mark.miller@qwest.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ah, but I said "poetic justice". Like for like. I am hearing DDoS
over and over. As I understand it, the application will throttle to
prevent Denial of access. It just causes additional GB to be used and
paid for.
Fraudulent CC use is an entirely different issue...
-m
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Erik Haagsman
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:30 PM
To: Paul G
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam"....
I agree and I'm surprised you even mentioned the wordt justice...since=20
when is retaliating bad practices with more bad practises that are=20
hardly likely to take out the real target considered a good idea..?
Erik
Paul G wrote:
> spammer buys hosting account, pays with fraudulent credit card,
> spams,provider gets ddos'ed and ends up paying for all the bandwidth=20
> because youcan't well charge some unsuspecting grandma in alabama for=20
> it. i don't likethis kind of justice.
>
>---
>paul galynin
>
>
> =20
>
