Got it... duh.. I should have known that!! I'm more than a little slow today.
> If this is indeed what Lycos is doing (seems to be from my > reading of the service description) sure the spammers or the > hostig provider can block the Lycos IPs at their routers which > will just stop the actual traffic from reaching the server. The > router (and it's bandwidth) itself will still be under assault > and traffic they want to get through will still be slowed down. > > To continue the picket line analogy. The authorities have moved > the picketers from in front of the door to the store (so if you > are in the parking lot you can easily get to the store) but they > are now relocated in front of the driveway making it difficult > to get into the parking lot to then get to the store. > > Yes the router can be more efficient at dropping the requests > than the server can but the regardless the bandwidth for the > spammer is being consummed. > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
