marc lindahl writes: 

> Saw this in the blackmail docs:
>  
> Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested:
>  
>   Reminds me, has there been any thought of adding teergrube powers to
>   Blackmail?
>  
>   (for the uninitiated, that would have it slow the session down when it
>   detects incoming spam. Each line of response from the SMTP server would
>   take an hour or so. This ties up resources on the spamming machine - in
>   the case of a single-threaded spew program, it would put an effective halt
>   to the whole thing. One person reported keeping a single incoming spam
>   connection open for two days using teergrube. If enough people do it,
>   then spamming would become much more complicated - either they set
>   timeouts so aggressive that they can't deliver to popular, burdened
>   sites, or they spin to a halt every time they hit a booby-trapped site).
>  
>  
> seems like a good idea!

I agree.  That's why Courier automatically tarpits attempted dictionary 
attacks. 

-- 
Sam

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