On Fri, May 18, 2007 15:29, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> 1) Your server can be used in a DoS against the distributed services >> > > You mean, by sending valid content on high-scoring mails? Mmmh. Yes, this > may create trouble to DCC, Pyzor and Razor. Not to SC, since they are > mostly interested to Received: header lines. Ok.
Not that per se. More that if you automatically report anything over x points, and you get hit with a spam storm that scores over x, you can end up DoSing yourself and contributing to a DoS on the distributed servers. Some defensive programming could reduce some of the risk, but not all of it.
