[Mimedefang] Spammers who won't take no for an answer

[Michael H Moran]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:02, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:26:37 -0400 (EDT), David F. Skoll wrote:
> > Is anyone seeing a new trend (maybe a new ratware package?)
> > I'm seeing spammers repeatedly retry the same message, even
> > after a 5xx failure code.
> 
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> I've wondered what they hope to gain. Maybe some servers turn of the 
> spam checking if they get too busy, and they hope to overload the 
> servers?
> (Wich seems odd, an overloaded server would be more likely to return 
> a temporary failure than to simply accept everything, and it doesn't 
> explain the retries to the HTTP server...)

On the other hand it could simply be the lasted script kiddie attempt at
a smtp or http DOS tool.

Mike