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From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May24.014455.27188@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
References: <1991May21.031016.9269@sceard.Sceard.COM> <1991May22.040039.21721@iguana.uucp> <1991May22.141737.26521@sceard.Sceard.COM>
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Date: Fri, 24 May 91 01:44:55 GMT

In article <1991May22.141737.26521@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>50MB of VMS stuff in a 10MB spool is just another denial of service attack.
>In this case it is an attack by the MBAS. Inadvertant, just trying to be
>of service, genuinely trying to be useful and helpful, but still a denial of
>service attack. The administration of the MBAS might be expected to know
>better. To expect the user to know better is also a noble endeavour, but
>probably will be disappointing.

when we got hit with the VMS stuff, we investigated and found that it was
user ignorance. "i didn't know it was going to be that big."

MBAS was explained to him, and when we finished, i feel he had more that
enough information so that he would not do it again.

6 weeks later, same user, getting some VMS uucp suite.

he tells me that if our system can't handle the load, we should get out of
the hub business.

now, was this attack from the MBAS or the user?

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