Anyone heard something about a technique called "teergrubing"?
It's a German expression and means "tar hole"

The target is to keep open as long as possible a connection from an
spamming server. This can be done with SMTP "-" answer codes like:

help
214-This is Sendmail version 8.8.5
214-Topics:
214-    HELO    EHLO    MAIL    RCPT    DATA
214-    RSET    NOOP    QUIT    HELP    VRFY
214-    EXPN    VERB    ETRN    DSN
214-For more info use "HELP <topic>".
214-To report bugs in the implementation send email to
214-    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
214-For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
214 End of HELP info

It's possible to keep open a connection responding any 3-5 minutes with
a new "-" line and so to use a spammers tcp-connection for hours and
hours with a minimum of traffic.
This box should be on an ip without regular mail traffic and without mx
records (for open relay scanners) or with an special mx-record for
spam-trap-mailboxes like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In addition this box can collect connecting ip-adresses and provide them
as a blacklist.

Markus


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