Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway. It's time for a retrospective.
Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #greytrapping #spam #antispam #greylisting #blocklist #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #ssh #passwords #passwordguessing #pop3 #security #networking #cybercrime also https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/115008381502998402 https://bsky.app/profile/pitrh.bsky.social/post/3lw3ziqntpc2o All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
