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Date:      Sat, 3 May 1997 06:38:10 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        jgrosch@sirius.com
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SPAM target
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970503063444.251D-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199705021845.LAA06944@superior.mooseriver.com>

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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Josef Grosch wrote:

> Terry Lambert said:
> >Of course, if someone wanted to build a little program to connect to
> >their smtp server and send an "RSET\r\n" every <configurable interval>
> >to keep the smtp server process alive and it's pages in core...
> >
> >And then if a certain mailing list of someone's friends were made aware
> >of the URL to pick up their copy of the program...
> >
> >And then if it's realized that Linux is a memory overcommit architecture...
> >
> >It seems to me that this hypothetical person would play hell with their
> >ability to start spam sending processes.
> >
> >It seems to me.
> >
> >
> 
> Terry, that is a diabolically clever idea! 

The nice thing is that it would only require a single SMTP connection 
from every conspirator.

The thing *I'd* like to know is how to get Earthlink to stop allowing 
relay.  I've e-mailed them the sendmail rules on how to do it, so they 
can't claim ignorance.

Danny



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