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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: forking attack bots
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170819.27384@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
- References: <1992Nov17.065607.11809@netcom.com> <Dweiss-171192024120@chiba.hughes.american.edu> <avalon.722014940@coombs>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:08:19 GMT
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- In article <avalon.722014940@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
-
- >Perhaps those of you who see these listless bots could email the admins
- >of the servers they connect to and ask that they be K-lined so that
- >normal users of IRC may use their server without any degradation in
- >service.
-
- Unfortunately, this kind of tactic doesn't work very well when there
- are LOTS of open-client servers out there with admins that don't read
- email. That's been the situation for several years now.
-
- If someone is acting like a child, talk to their system administrator.
- It's the only way. Posting lots of bogus articles to Usenet and
- sending someone loads of junk email is not tolerated, so why should
- making dozens of bots on IRC to harrass someone be tolerated?
-
- >The next step in the flood race will be won by the next server release.
-
- Actually, I don't believe that your next release will cope with 20
- bots, or 200, flooding someone at the same time. Technical solutions
- have their limits, and the jerks happen to be proceeding down the line
- of attack which is most difficult to deal with.
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