--- Begin Message ---Well, yes. It's called a Denial of Service Attack. However if all is as you say, then it is a matter for the application writers, not the network admins... unless they start affecting network performance. Or maybe some kind soul will do something like RBL and keep up a list of ip's from which media hackers are known to be operating so we can just block them entirely. [With some decay time for IP#s in known DHCP address blocks of course...]
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