> stolen time by damping: ................... 625 > days 8 hours 14 mins > > This is the statistic of a single system in a time of two months. Just > estimate, what is happen to the spammers if some thousend other systems > are doing the same.
Wow, that's fantastic! > From: Thomas Eckardt/eck <thomas.ecka...@thockar.com> > Reply-To: ASSP development mailing list <assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:41:35 +0100 > To: ASSP development mailing list <assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [Assp-test] Antwort: Re: Interesting approach to nuking spam > >> Would a spammer really care about damping? >> I just see it >> fits into the "misconfigured mta" category more than the "spammer" > > A legal server will not (or less) get a 'damping' by ASSP. The idea behind > damping, is to steal the spammers time. A single system does not make > sense, but some thousend do. > - The time, a spammer has to send spam, is limmited - and if we steal him > a part of this time, he can send less spam. > - If he realize, that your MX is answering slow - you'll get a "spammers > penalty" and he will make less connection to your MX. Or he will open too > much connection at the same time, so he will be catched by our frequency > feature and will fastly get extreme black > - I can confirm, that you'll get much less spammers connections after > damping is switched on - it takes less than a week for the spammers to > realize, that they are not welcome by your ASSP and that they lose time. > > stolen time by damping: ................... 625 > days 8 hours 14 mins > > This is the statistic of a single system in a time of two months. Just > estimate, what is happen to the spammers if some thousend other systems > are doing the same. > > Another way to fool the spammers: > There is a registered domain - only for spammers, which is not used by > any legal person or organization. The web page contains some hidden email > addresses for the robots - nothing else. The MX records of that domain > points to an ASSP-cluster with shared databases and some backup MX (with > assp and less normal workload) of other domains to collect the spammers > IP's. While daming is done by ASSP, there is enough time to ... - I'll > stop here. > > IMHO - ASSP is great to block spam - but I think we should fight against > the spammers as much as we can in a legal way. > > Thomas > > > > > Von: Маллиндайн Стивен (Steve Mallindine) <st...@sc.ru.ru> > An: ASSP development mailing list <assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net> > Datum: 29.01.2010 06:22 > Betreff: Re: [Assp-test] Interesting approach to nuking spam > > > > Would a spammer really care about damping? > > It's a great tool for letting other sysadmins know somethings wrong > with their system (ie, they would see their queues backing-up, and > hopefully investigate why..) > > But surely a spammer would "fire and forget"... Surely he wouldn't > care if his spam took 10 seconds, 2 minutes, 1 hour, or even never > arrives.. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining about damping. I just see it > fits into the "misconfigured mta" category more than the "spammer" > category.. Or have I missed something? > > Steve > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 29.01.2010, at 7:42, "Fritz Borgstedt" <f...@iworld.de> wrote: > >> ASSP development mailing list <assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net> >> schreibt: >>> Ditto. But every now and then, a postmaster feels the urge to give >>> spammers a taste of their own medicine, even if one never acts on the >>> desire. Call it a desire to take out one's >>> frustration/annoyance/time-wasted on them. >> >> ASSP2 does have a nice tool for that: damping >> >> >> --- >> --- >> --- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation >> Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the >> business >> Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term >> contracts >> Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call >> away. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com >> _______________________________________________ >> Assp-test mailing list >> Assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the > business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Assp-test mailing list > Assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test > > > > DISCLAIMER: > ******************************************************* > This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential, legally > privileged and protected in law and are intended solely for the use of the > > individual to whom it is addressed. > This email was multiple times scanned for viruses. 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