On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:

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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