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 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
