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RE: "Make love, not spam"....

  • From: Miller, Mark
  • Date: Mon Nov 29 17:28:41 2004

 Ah, but I said "poetic justice".  Like for like.  I am hearing DDoS
over and over.  As I understand it, the application will throttle to
prevent Denial of access. It just causes additional GB to be used and
paid for.

 Fraudulent CC use is an entirely different issue...

-m



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Erik Haagsman
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:30 PM
To: Paul G
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam"....



I agree and I'm surprised you even mentioned the wordt justice...since 
when is retaliating bad practices with more bad practises that are 
hardly likely to take out the real target considered a good idea..?

Erik

Paul G wrote:

> spammer buys hosting account, pays with fraudulent credit card,
> spams,provider gets ddos'ed and ends up paying for all the bandwidth 
> because youcan't well charge some unsuspecting grandma in alabama for 
> it. i don't likethis kind of justice.
>
>---
>paul galynin
>
>
>  
>





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