Subject: Re: 2.0rc4 unstability
To: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2004.salmi.ch>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/19/2004 14:18:40
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed --> netbsd-users (2004-11-18 09:48:06 -0800):
> > We used to be able to email to query-pr@ to retrieve the PR with
> > Subject: --full 26908
> 
> Too bad this service ceased. Does anybody know why?

It stopped because someone repeatedly conducted denial-of-service
attacks on it by flooding us with mail that did large queries.  We
decided that, though it was a convenient service to have, it was
not worth the maintenance hassle (very few people actually used it).

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud