Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

[David Scheidt]

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, David Scheidt wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In a nutshell, teergrubing is the name that has been given to a simple
> > technique that exploits a small but significant known weakness of most
> > SMTP client implementations.  This weakness is exploited to either slow
> > down or halt the flow of e-mail from some SMTP client to some SMTP server.
> 
> Think about it before you fire it up.  You are essentially launching a DOS
> attack on somebody's mail server.  In some jurisdictions, that's a felony.  

My mistake.  I confused this with some of the other anti-spam measures.
Being slow isn't criminal. (fortunatly for me!)_


David



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