Teergrubing (was: Ada The Best Language?)

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <slrn9lt738.k0.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>, Lutz Donnerhacke says...
>
>The real problem is to keep a lot of spammers online for a long time in
>order to steal them ressources. It would be mad to kill yourself in the same
>way (by using threads).

I'm sure there's something I'm missing here, but I don't see it.

Even without the threads, they are using a limited resource on your system (a
connection). Admittedly, your maximum (efficient) number of threads is probably
less by about a factor of 10 than the limit on connections to a single port. But
that still means you are going to have to set some kind of limit to the number
of connections you do this with, or risk a denial of service. On the flip side,
if the spammer is just sending one at a time, it really doesn't matter much
either way.

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