[JDEV] Offline message quotas?

DJ Adams dj.adams at pobox.com
Fri Nov 9 08:46:26 CST 2001


On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:38:42PM +0800, Migs Paraz wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I'm wondering what will break first, disk space or the
> > XML library functions ...
> 
> Whichever case, it would be a denial of service for the server operator, so
> we need to watch out for it before it happens?

Well, perhaps. But don't forget the karma settings for the server
which could be used to hinder such a DOS attack - unless the attacker
was extremely patient or had nothing better to do than to write a 
script to trickle-feed messages ...

dj



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