[Gllug] re: Verisign 64.94.110.11

Alan Peery peery at io.com
Wed Sep 17 14:29:39 UTC 2003


t.clarke wrote:

>as a matter of interest, if we all sent thousands of emails to non-existent
>.com addresses, would this over load Versign's  "Snummy mail rejector daemon"
>that sits on port 25 ??
>  
>
The technical answer is "yes".

The legal answer might be that this is a denial of service attack, but a 
legal "trying to contact X, not versign" counter argument might win the day.

Alan


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