[NNTP] Fwd: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-05
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Jun 13 01:31:32 PDT 2005
Ken Murchison said:
> Should we say something along the lines like "if the number of rejected
> TAKETHIS commands exceeds an implementation specific threshold, the
> server SHOULD/MAY terminate the session with a 400 response".
I won't scream if you add it, but as I've just written, I don't see this as
being NNTP-specific.
If the client really is malicious, tarpitting it might be better than just
issuing a 400.
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