On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 01:08, lorne wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:16 pm, rikona wrote: > > Hello lorne, > > > > Thursday, October 2, 2003, 7:50:00 PM, you wrote: > > > > l> A friend of mine has set up a tar pit type system. When he gets a > > l> message identified as spam, he holds them open and responds one > > l> character at a time telling them to do things to themselves and > > l> after 15 minutes it finally lets them go. So he is > > l> stopping/slowing the turd from sending out probably a thousand > > l> messages each time he attaches. I thought this was very cool. > > > > How, exactly, does he do this? If this really works, and we all do it, > > it might help a bit. If nothing else, I'd feel better causing THEM > > some trouble for a change. :-) > > Well for starters he used BSD, but I've sent him a message asking for a resend > of the message on how he did it.
Sounds like he might be using the Open BSD package called spamd. Here is the man page http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd James
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