J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft) (06/12/89)
The main reason we do not like hackers is that they deprive us of resources (either by theft or denial of service). Mailers that result in multiple copies being re-produced in ludicrous quantities deny service (bandwidth through network, disk space on mailbox host (message store), user time discarding) are half as bad as this. What punitive measures are to be taken against sites that do not maintain their service MHS's properly...? or what's the difference between negligence and recklessness? cheers jon
mcc@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett) (07/22/89)
Since this response is through the TCP/IP group rather than the BIND group the context is incomplete. Rutgers is running a BIND mail concentrator which began retransmitting messages at 20 minute intervals increasing the size of the message at each interval. In the USA the internet is a "free" service (your tax dollar at work) the only cost is loss of bandwidth and the irritation of browsing through duplicated messages. The author of the message is in the UK--he is charged for each packet that traverses the transatlantic link wheether or not he originated the message traffic. No doubt you would be piqued if you were paying three days worth of duplicate message traffic. Merton
CONNELNI@UIAMVS.BITNET (Ken Connelly) (07/23/89)
What's the point??? Do you have a problem with a particular site? Or a particular piece of software? Or what?