A modest proposal

Wed Sep 18 02:01:12 UTC 1996

>Currently, anyone can program their computer to repeatedly dial a 
>given business phone line and fill up a company's inbound phone lines,
>making a denial of service attack.  Why isn't the phone system about
>to die because of it?

Actually the phone system does periodically die from this.  Just ask
the White House switchboard operators about it.

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation