On 11 Apr 2019, at 04:43, Marc Roos via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > B. With 500GB dump > - the owner of the attacking server (probably hacked) will notice it > will be forced to take action.
Unlikely. What is very likely is that your ISP shuts you don for network abuse. > If abuse clouds are smart (most are) they would notice that attacking my > servers, will result in the loss of abuse nodes, hence they will not > bother me anymore. Not at all the case. > If every one would apply strategy B, the abuse problem would get less. No. The abuse problem wold be far worse. -- I thank my lucky stars I'm not superstitious.