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Re: "Make love, not spam"....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Nov 29 17:39:36 2004

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:39:08 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Once upon a time, Miller, Mark <mark.miller@qwest.com> said:
>  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.

For sites set up with a monthly bandwidth quota, that _is_ a denial of
service.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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