Rusty, how did tarpit and that delay time effect non spam users? On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Carruth, Rusty <[email protected]> wrote: > Some time back I thought the best solution would be to form a co-op. Members > of the co-op would run some sort of program to detect spammers, and then join > together in a DOS attack on the spammer's MTA. Detection should be pretty > easy, I'd think, with minimal false positives. > > When I thought of that, it wasn't illegal. It is now, so I've dropped > thinking about it, but it would have reduced the spam. Of course, the > collateral damage (to clueless users whose machines had been 0wn3d, as a > minimum) would have been pretty high, and I'm not sure they would have been > able to figure out why their systems broke down. Probably would have > required a pretty big education program, as it were, to get people to either > (1) stop using the primary virus propagator of the universe (I am, of course, > referring to a certain operating system); (2) get off the internet; or, (3) > keep their virus scanners up to date. Assuming, of course, that most spam > comes from 0wn3d machines. Not sure that's a valid assumption. > > I've tried running that thing that keeps spammers busy trying to deliver the > email (tarpit? I cannot remember - the idea is you keep telling unknown MTAs > 'hold on a moment' for a while - say an hour or more, thus keeping their > delivery rate low. I should mention that at home I run my own MTA, so it was > an option for me. Anybody using their ISP's MTA (or gmail, or...) cannot do > this). The problem is that you need a LOT of people running that for it to > do much good in spam reduction overall, and I don't' know if it reduced mine > (but it was satisfying to look at the headers and see that couple of hour > delay). > > I finally gave up and just kept changing my email address (and I also used > the spam detector in my email program). > > Rusty > > >> -----Original Message----- >> On 11/09/2012 05:54 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> > could someone send me a virus that I could 'share' with all the >> > thieves that try to scam me? >> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> Not a prudent approach. What goes around comes around. >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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