Infinite Monkeys and other BLs

[Christopher Hicks]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Kevin Miller wrote:
> Shutting down the server might be easier for email admins, but many
> would probably never even notice that now they're getting a few
> timeouts, and the requests would still be traveling down the pike,
> jacking up the bandwidth bill.

They could have put in a lame nameserver record for the subdomain of the
RBL pointing to 127.0.0.1 and eliminated the subsequent traffic.  That
would have been kinder, but admittedly less effective.

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</chris>

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