On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Serge Knystautas wrote:
> Just finally got around to writing that up yesterday, so glad I could > use it so quickly. :) It's an excellent document. Some of the views I bet are controversal, but it does touch on all of the major points that I was thinking about. > If you are getting billed, then that would suck. However, I can't see > why someone would send you that many large files. Spammers send smaller > messages deferring bandwidth load to externally referenced images. I am probably more concerned about a DOS attack than spamming. There are some strange individuals that get their jollies out of bringing other people down. Been at the receiving end of it before for DNS of all things. Get a little paranoid at times now. > To date we've relied on iptable or network/hardware support to do this, > but it's on some drawing board to support throttling in James. sendmail > does it, and we figure we should immitate. Sounds great. Maybe I could lend a hand someday instead of taking up everyone's time answering questions. :-) Thanks again. -Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
