Infinite Monkeys and other BLs

[James Hammett]

At 04:07 PM -0500 on 3/17/04, you (Christopher Hicks) wrote:
>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.

Several people have posted link to the announcements.  Which I've NOW
taken a look at.  He seems to say, he's doing it because of the
problems of getting DDoS attacks against his system(s).

He also SAYS:
>  I want to assure everyone, most solemly, that I have no plans whatso-
>ever to implement any sorts of ``positive response'' wild-
>cards in any of these zones (as happened, unfortunately, in
>the Osirusoft case).


>The MONKEYS.COM anti-spam zones will remain accessible,
>but content free for an absolute minimum
>of 6 months, and even after that time, ample prior notice
>will be provided, both here and elsewhere, regarding any
>changes.

later,
James
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