[68125] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fuck Cyberpromo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremiah A Blatz)
Wed Oct 16 02:41:51 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 02:02:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9610152204.AA02090@vampire.science.gmu.edu>
Tim Scanlon <tfs@vampire.science.gmu.edu> writes:
> Peter Tre wrote:
> > Bouncing mail back to him may be emotionally satisfying, but
> > I suspect he filters it. He also has a skin as thick as a rhino's.
>
> Not that I would do it, but SYN flooding could very well provide
> an adequate solution to Mr. Wallace.
SYN flods do nothing to stop *outgoing* connections, BTW, so this
would not directly stop spamming. It wouldn't be that hard to set up a
bunch of mail reception sites seperate from the targeted site, then
read mail/orders from them.
Jer
"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole
