Filters That Fight Back

[Simon Huggins]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Tom Anderson wrote:
> If that were true that a worm would trigger a flood of bounces from your
> machine, then it ought to be true already, as all mailer-daemons send
> bounces on many different conditions.  Why would one additional
> condition be any more dangerous?

Lots of people die all the time, why is killing one more any worse a
thing?

If you can do it at SMTP time then the only person put out is the actual
spammer.  But at SMTP time you can't send 1MB attachments of rubbish at
them luckily.


Simon.

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