[LINK] Bigpond drained for I,L,M

[Danny Yee]

Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Well, the ADSL service was down for about 18 hours ... for this 
> little black duck with a surname outside that letter range ... so I'd 
> guess that Telstra shut down every damn server whilst they fixed the 
> puppy. If that was true for every BigPond service then a heap more 
> than the I, L and M customers were affected ... and would take the 
> count up to the 4 or 5 hundred thousand mark.       :)
 
I don't understand how a virus can take out a mail server... it
should just be forwarding mail, not opening any of it and executing
the contents.  If it's the sheer volume of messages generated by the
virus causing problems, it should be possible to use the mail transport
resource and rate controls to stop that.  (I would have thought this
would already be implemented as part of anti-spam controls.)

Danny.