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> On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Avi Freedman wrote: > > and another provider in Philly was attacked for 4-6 hours on news ports > > (pretty ineffective). > > Hi. Why was this ineffective? > > Thanks, > Chris Caputo > President, Altopia Corporation Because most providers only let their customers connect to their nnrp/nntp servers. And you can easily build a filter which allows just port-119 connects from your news peers and denies all others... Of course, that wouldn't work as well for alt.net (you guys) if you're still selling off-site nnrp access to hundreds of people. Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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