> According to the little I have read on this topic, one of the spam
> probes used by ORBZ triggered a known problem in Domino servers that
> then caused an infinite internal mail loop - hence DOS.
> 
> The "victim", understandably angry, probably decided that he had a
> much better chance of suing ORBZ or getting them charged than he
> would of suing IBM or getting a fix for the problem in Domino.

Complicating matters would be ORBZ' MO of repeated, intrusive "proactive"
testing for open relays. IF the DOS took place after the Domino bug was
discovered and if ORBZ kept testing despite requests to stop, then I can
certainly see an actionable issue there.
-- 
Dave Pooser
Manager of Information Services
Alford Media  http://www.alfordmedia.com


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