On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > "D. J. Bernstein" <djbat_private> writes: > > News flash: There are dozens of denial-of-service attacks on every MTA. > > I think that was the whole point that Wietse was making. You attacked > Postfix for being subject to a DoS attack. He pointed out that you > suffered from them, too. Seemed like fair game to me. I think that Dan has a valid point though, that (if I understand correctly) the Postfix DoS breaks RFC compliance, because it can cause mail to get lost, whereas the qmail DoS that Wietse pointed out simply incapacitates the mail server. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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