In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
That is just plain false. In fact it is more than false. It is silly.
Why would you want to spread such a ridiculous rumor? Do you work for
the DMA or something?
The tgd daemon is an entirely defensive weapon... kinda like the old
Regan-era Star Wars idea. It just sits there and does nothing until
someone else attacks. If and when you _do_ start spamming my server,
if I happen to be running the thing, all that happens is that you get
stuck like a bug on flypaper.
Next you'll be telling us that flypaper is against the laws that prohibit
cruelty to animals.
:-)
Yea. Right. In which parallel Universe?
P.S. What's so silly about this is that you got it entirely bass-ackwards.
If *you* are sending *me* a ton of spam, it is *you* you might be prosecuted
for having launced a Denial-Of-Service attack, not me.
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