From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!wagner
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Future Traffic Overloads
Article-I.D.: utcsstat.238
Posted: Wed Jul  7 15:22:18 1982
Received: Wed Jul  7 17:29:36 1982
References: utcsrgv.461

The solution to automatic reply repliers and the resultant loops is to build
a delay into the legitimate reply generators, so that the system can not go
into high frequency oscillations.  The ability to automatically get mechanical
confirmation from all sites who got a message is very useful, and should not
be hindered by the fact that there is potential for people to mess it up.
Remember, right now I could mess up the net by submitting a message a minute
out of cron.  While that isnt exponential, it is certainly still enough to
fill everyones disks.  Perhaps the correct solution is to disallow access
to net.test except for system administrators?  I dont like that one either,
I must admit, since it cuts out a valid (although expensive) way of determining
all reachable nodes.

Michael Wagner, UTCS