a bit of lovely news about spam in California

Mon Jan 7 14:20:54 PST 2002

If your stated goal is gumming up the works at USPS by returning 
this mail and getting everyone else to return it also, how is this
*not* a coordinated multi-source DoS attempt against a service
provider with multiple points of presence?  Packets or physical
letters, the concept is the same.

cheers,
SRC

"Derek J. Balling" wrote: 
> A DoS?! how is this any more of a DoS than configuring your router to
> reject packets from $REMOTE_NETWORK instead of simply dropping them?

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