Re: Limiting access to replay in 1.4

On 4/12/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com> wrote:
> You do not provide any arguments as to why this is a problem.
>
> Upon reading your post, I'm left thinking "bah, who are you to decide
> what 'normal users' should do and not do?".

In this case, I don't care about the users - I care about the server.

> Could you please provide some reasoning why you think rate limiting is
> not a good solution?

Because what they are trying to do shouldn't be allowed as a matter of policy.

> To me it sounds just perfect - allow people to do what they want, but
> don't let them eat more than so-and-so-many-percent bandwidth (... or
> cpu, or memory, that would be useful too.)

Rate limting is still a DoS - albeit much slower. -- justin

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Received on Wed Apr 12 17:36:03 2006