Echo

Sat Aug 17 20:24:30 UTC 2002

I have some fairly popular echoes at gurus.com, the most popular of
which is internet at gurus.com (an address that never appeared anywhere,
oddly enough, although versions like internet8 at gurus.com appear in
my books.)

It remembers each message it sends, and won't send more than five
messages per hour to any target mailbox.  Messages above that are
dropped, not delayed.

I don't ever recall a deliberate mailbomb, but I do get spam blasts
that would reverse mailbomb the forged From: address in the spam, and
the occasional loop. The rate limit has sufficed to keep things under
control.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
"Just how much hay did we buy?" asked Tom, balefully.