On Monday February 08 2021 22:11, you wrote to me:
SM>>> Yes. And I consider it a useful.
MvdV>> I am not convinced...
SM> I didn't plan to convince you. I just expressed my subjective opinion. SM> Moreover, I expect that now, from a technical point of view, they will SM> clearly explain to me how this can be dangerous, if at all.
That is not how it works. It is you that wants a change. It is up you to convince the developers that it is useful and that any adverse side effects are minimal and not dangerous.
I am not a dveloper of a ping robot, zo convincing me is not needed indeed. But convincing me would be a good execirse for convincing the developers because that is what you will have to do.
I have done a small survey and send ping requests all over the globe. I tested if the ping robots support @REPLYTO. Other than yours, I found none. That does not mean they do not exist, I have not tested all nodes flying a PING flag yet. But they sem to be rare at best. So you have a lot of work to do.
SM> And, yes, I understand what you are hinting at, but this will not be SM> able to cause a ping storm, even if there was the same robot on SM> 2:460/5858.
SM> In addition, such an action is as meaningless as it possible, since SM> the author of such a letter is guaranteed not to see the result.
Once I received a mail bomb. The one who send it did not see the resukt either.
The targets will see it and depending how often it happens may percieve is as confusing, amusing or annoying...
