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Re: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attack

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• Subject: Re: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attacks?
• From: 'Liam Quin' <liam@w...>
• Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:49:28 -0500
• In-reply-to: <1076107401.2931.28.camel@z...>
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:43:21AM +1100, Rick Marshall wrote:
> your proposal would constrain us to secured email connections to the
> server
If you are an ISP - yes.

> and all mail passing through the server.
No.

> given that we already
> deal with hundreds of mbytes of email a day i don't want to add to the
> burden.

Then people would move to an ISP that was willing to support them.

Traditionally, safety and security are things that are forced
upon manufacturers, either through liability (esp. in the US)
or through legislation (esp. in Europe).

> as the online community expands, like it or not, we too will have to
> look to more than technical solutions.

Agreed.

Liam

-- 
Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

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  • RE: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attacks?
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Re: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attacks?
    • From: 'Liam Quin' <liam@w...>
  • Re: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoSAttacks?
    • From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>

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