** Sometime around 16:45 -0500 3/17/97, Stan Ryckman said:
>At 03:52 PM 3/17/97 -0500, Vince Sabio wrote:
>
>>My point in posting it was to alert the *list owners* -- hence the posting
>>to listmom-talk and list-managers.
>
>This is all probably unnecessary anyway, right? There was a syntax error
>(a "*") in the sub. request, so the listservs would have sent out
>(to the AOL victim) a syntax-error message, and that would be that.
>No impact on lists; major impact on the AOL user (if he's real), of course.
>
>Or am I missing something?
I'm not sure if the wildcard works on any/all servers hit (I'm not about
to start trying it; I have better things to do <g>), but let's consider
two cases:
CASE 1: "*" subscribes user to all lists on any/all servers hit: Major
impact on the user, and it's worth alerting the list owners and server
managers to this situation.
CASE 2: "*" does not work on ANY servers. In this case, why even bother
to notify the postmasters, as you suggested in your first correspondence?
Or am I missing something?
(And, even in CASE 2, I *still* think it would be important for list
owners and server managers to be aware that there is an attempted denial-
of-service attack in progress. The person who made the attempt might
return shortly as a *smarter* idiot.)
- Vince S.
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