Re: Simon is impersonating me.

Not "couple of 100 messages". More like a couple of thousand. Enough
messages that if they were not deleted the group would be useless for normal
users. Those normal users are why the groups are here and why we are here.
Even though they clearly are not important to him, they are important to us.

His attack is not a consequence of his message being cancelled. It is a
consequence of maturity issues, a person selfishly attempting to ruin things
for everyone else. If he is not allowed to do anything he wants in your
yard then he's going to mess up your yard so that nobody can do what they
want there.

And yes, were it to a place where that quantity would deny service to users
an attack of a couple of 100 messages would be a denial of service attack.

.. Ed

somebody
news:466f111b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Did I correctly understand you? I understand you as saying that it is
improper for CodeGear and TeamB to try to defend against a
denial-of-service attack. Surely you cannot be justifying that?

Isn't the DOS (I wouldn't even call it that, couple of 100 messages isn't
DOS) a consequence of his messages being cancelled, and not the
other way around?


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