On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 4:13:45 PM, lists lists wrote: >>On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 6:56:08 AM, Ronan McGlue wrote: >>> I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its >>> generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with >>> about 50% of our daily connections, of which i defer all of them at a >>> very low overhead. >> >>Some of the spammers will eventually notice that your bogus MXer >>is not responding and fall back to trying the other MXers.
> Jeff, > Why would they notice? In my mind, the mailserver would accept the > connections and emails, only to silently defer them. And by defer, I > mean delete them without any rejection or reply. It's probably true that a fake proxy that does a better job of pretending to be a real MXer may take longer for the bad guys to discover. However my original reply was referring to an MX record that did not connect to a server of any kind, fake or real. That arrangement some spammers seem to detect eventually. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
