At 11:54 AM +0200 2002/08/29, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> But as long as you live that's better than letting them have their ways > now is it. It's still the death of a thousand cuts. Yes, it buys us time, but we have to use that time wisely to get real socio-legal solutions. And we have to get people to agree that the only thing it really does is buy us time, so that we can get real socio-legal solutions faster -- hopefully, in time to save the patient. > Now stop the anal-ogies and come up with something that will _stop_ the > crackdealing. I could say the same to you. >> b) A few weeks ago I counted over 200 open relays simultaneously >> spewing the same spam at us. > > Thats where RBL's are for, they close them up, if you had used an RBL > your box would simply deny those relays at all, block them IP based and > bingo no spewing from them. That's assuming that all those open relays were on one of the blacklists. Even then, they'd still hammer his machines with connections. >> Because sooner or later you can't see out the grated windows any more >> or get some air through them, and you're afraid to go outside... > > Never been in the city (those places where more than 100k people live) > now have you ? Yeah, I have. Those people still leave their apartments on occasion. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)