On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:09:43 -0400, Michael Richardson via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
> > six days, then eleven days. > >What? I would expect you do go by prime numbers. 3,7,11.. :-) My preference would predictably be 2, 4, 8, 16, ... >Actually, I seriously wonder if there are recurrences that are important. >I observer that many traces still see north american diurnal cycles in >malicious >traffic, indicating that it's still being driven by enterprise desktop PCs >that get turned off at night. There is a huge amount of signal buried in the noise. LLMs could actually contribute quite a bit in the study. >Do you consider greytrapping (1-byte window, labrea tar-pit) them all rather >than blocking? No. The system described above suits my purposes, and the only maintenance needed is adding the spamtraps that spammers themselves have created. >Someone just has to email to one of your trap addresses from gmail, right? Yes. >Your setup is one I've wanted to replicate for awhile. It's a built-in feature in the MTA I've been using since 1987, MDaemon. mdr (who sees 'Nadine' getting surge from the fake survey crowd) -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". See the sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IW AA #2157 GEVNP _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
