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From: mcc@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: HACKERS AND MAILERS AND BIND
Message-ID: <8906171411.AA01915@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 89 14:11:15 GMT
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Since this response is through the TCP/IP group rather than the BIND group
the context is incomplete.  Rutgers is running a BIND mail concentrator
which began retransmitting messages at 20 minute intervals increasing the
size of the message at each interval.  In the USA the internet is a "free"
service (your tax dollar at work) the only cost is loss of bandwidth and
the irritation of browsing through duplicated messages.  The author of the
message is in the UK--he is charged for each packet that traverses the
transatlantic link wheether or not he originated the message traffic.  No
doubt you would be piqued if you were paying three days worth of duplicate
message traffic.

Merton