Dave Long writes (on FoRK): > Would it be possible to mess with the input parameters (SO_RCVBUF to > 1 and poll infrequently?) such that a "black- holed" connection > would be just incredibly, instead of infinitely, slow? > > I would prefer that my personal mail took 10 min/k to be delivered > than the current situation where it isn't delivered at all.
I think this is an excellent idea, and (at least on Linux 2.4) it is indeed possible to set SO_RCVBUF low and poll infrequently, thus achieving a slow TCP connection. (I just tried it.) I think some folks have tried higher-level versions of this to try to suck up spammers' resources --- when they detect a spam in progress, the SMTP server begins to insert time delays before answering SMTP messages, thus holding the connection open longer. I think this is called "teergrube", or "tar-baby". > If the USPS is any indication, spammers have more commercial clout > than we individual end users, anyway. Junk-mailers pay the USPS, and (so I've heard) pay most of its expenses; they don't pay ISPs, and quite the contrary, they cost ISPs quite a bit of money. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> > Then the object is collected. The finalizer is not run a second time. Can you cast a spell to resoul an undead object? Do the resouled undead differ from the living? -- Charles Fiterman on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
