On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> My first inclination would be to restrict the "-s size" option to
> the superuser, the same way "-f" is... and, basically, for the same
> reason :-)

In which case the users move on to

    cat /dev/zero | telnet badhost.bad.net discard

or little perl or C programs, or something similar.

I think the correct solution is to explain to the users that if
they wish to abuse the network, they will be made free to find
another ISP.

cjs

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