[SpamCop-List] Re: A mailman opt-in plus confirmation mailing list is spam?

[Tim McGraw]

Eric wrote:
> Tim McGraw wrote:
>> Eric wrote:
>>
>>> Do you have information that the distributed attacks causing DNS for
>>> SpamCop to be unavailable were actually caused by hardware failure?
>>> That's news to me.  Please substantiate.
>>
>> It was well-known here. I'm sure you could Google the archives and 
>> find those discussions.
> 
> I do recall those discussions.  It was not hardware failure, it
> was a concerted distributed attack which caused DNS servers for
> the SC domains to be unable to respond within the usual timeout
> period.  It was one of the major reasons that SC adopted the
> Akamai web support.

Corrected... and agreed.