From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-25 11:53:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com> <3B55B01A.DAC06D79@icn.siemens.de> <5be89e2f.0107181248.73298c57@posting.google.com> <9j949b$1ujp$1@norfair.nerim.net> <9cV57.54954$WS4.8386096@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <9j98pv$20vi$1@norfair.nerim.net> <3B586C51.53C17E25@home.com> Subject: Teergrubing (was: Ada The Best Language?) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:53:07 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:53:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10567 Date: 2001-07-25T18:53:07+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com