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Re: RE: Forwarders

2004-01-12 17:01:46
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:07:47PM +0100, Dr. Ernst Molitor wrote:

| please be serious. If a single vote saying a spam trap has been hit
| would be sufficient to block an e-mail server, this would open up a
| simple way to shut down virtually all e-mail traffic within minutes. You
| wouldn't want that kind of DOS attack, would you?

If the vote were authenticated as from a true spam trap, operated by someone
trusted, this would not be a problem.  It's only if you let just anyone do
this do you expose it to abuse.

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