Not forgetting, simply deferring discussion on that.  We’ve a much smaller limit to deal with right now.  But even that limit would have to go to remove this attack.
 
From: Btc Drak
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New attack identified and potential solution described: Dropped-transaction spam attack against the blocksize limit
 
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Raystonn . <raystonn@hotmail.com> wrote:
No, with no blocksize limit, a spammer would would flood the network with
transactions until they ran out of money.
 
I think you are forgetting even if you remove the blocksize limit, there is still a hard message size limit imposed by the p2p protocol. Block would de-facto be limited to this size.