On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was > hammered by an IP originating in mainland China. This attack was > only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service. About 6 years ago, the POP3 port on one of our web sites (on a shared server at OLM) was attacked. OLM discovered this when I couldn't download my email and filed a trouble ticket. Someone was accessing it 60 times a minute. Whatever OLM did, to prevent it worked. :-)