* on the Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:37:12AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have several email > servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered > MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher > numbered than my real servers. So in theory no one should ever hit the > higher numbered servers. Especially when the IP addresses are on the > same server as the lower numbered MX. > > But as most of you know spammers don't play by the rules and they try > hitting the higher MX records first thinking there's less spam filtering > there. So what I'm doing is counting hits by IP address. At the moment > they have to hit it 75 times to get blacklisted. And it's all spammers > and spam bots. > > Who thinks this is interesting?
Sounds like a waste of effort to me. How many hosts has this method caught so far that wouldn't have been caught by more common methods anyway? Mike -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
