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Re: mail storm
From: @ (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:56:56 -0500
Dan Stromberg wrote:
This almost has to have been discussed before, but I don't recall seeing it anywhere. Imagine a hacker really doesn't like someone, and is willing to do something disruptive to a lot of other people to spite that one person. Or imagine that they just want to do something very disruptive. Imagine the hacker picks 2n mailing lists, subscribing the i'th to the (i+n)th and the (i+n)th to the i'th, subscribing that person they really don't like to the 0..n-1'th, and finally, forging one message to each of the 0..n-1'th.
Try subscribeing ALL lists to ALL lists (and subscribe every list to itself). The reaction after time T will be (ideally) sum( t=0, t=T, N ** t) messages (where t is time and N is the number of mailing lists). It should be relatively easy to write a perl script that does it. What is proves is that every mailing list should include a standard header X-Mailing-List: <submission@address> to help other list manager programs identify the illegal submissions. It also helps users who are list-bombed (ie, subscribed to hundreds of unrelated mailing lists) to junk all unwanted messages. - éÇÏÒØ.
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