Cron Errors

[D. Taylor]

Actually, the teergrube is ingenious, pure Eeevil, and
fully SMTP compliant, all rolled into one.

The basic idea is this:  A Linux or FreeBSD system
running on a 386 with 8M of RAM can process trillions
of mail messages per second.  If a spammer is able to
use your system, say, starting on a Friday night, by
the time you realize what's happening on Monday morning,
your system has annoyed moles and moles of users.  The
spammer really likes your system because it's so fast.
Now imagine introducing, say, an intentional thirty-
second delay on each message.  Thirty seconds isn't
that long for a user to wait for his mail, but to a
spammer, your system suddenly becomes A LOT less
attractive.  For the IP addresses of your friends,
you can configure the teergrube to hand off the
connection to your real MTA (qmail or sendmail)
without any delay.


D

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Craig White wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:16:20 -0700
> From: Craig White <CraigWhite@AzApple.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Cron Errors
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> > J.L.Francois
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 6:47 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Cron Errors
> >
> >
> > It seems like on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 12:50:17PM -0700, Craig
> > White scribbled:
> > Orig Msg> you mean like that one where it refuses to take your
> > email for like 6 hours?
> >
> > Hey, That's a feature! ( see my sig on Teergrube )
> >
> > Orig Msg> Has ubersekuritycrakerstoppen system managed to employ
> > ns1.speedchoicen.com
> > Orig Msg> in his master plan?  ns2.speedchoice.com revealed the
> > true identity of his
> > Orig Msg> domains whereabouts.
> >
> > The speedchoice nameservers are acting up because of some
> > port scanner problems that fall inside the SpeedChoice IP space.
> >
> > The account is being nuked from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
> >
> > JLF Sends...
> >
> > ** Debian Linux/*BSD Rocks! **  Read This Emails Headers **
> > Send me ASCII & RTF only. Microsoft formats go to /dev/null unread.
> > MagusNet,Inc. fights UCE/UBE/SPAM: http://www.imrss.org/dssl
> > http://maps.vix.com  http://www.orbs.org , http://www.mail-abuse.org
> > http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.en.html
> > Got Anonymity on the Internet? http://www.magusnet.com/proxy.html
> ---
> teergrube a feature?  I suppose only if you aren't expecting e-mail to be
> timely. I actually use a different feature... I filter e-mail and that which
> isn't specifically directed ends up in the catchall dumpster which allows me
> to scan it quickly and dump the unsolicited stuff...rather low tech (dare I
> say this...M$) solution.
> 
> I suppose that it maintains a list of senders that are allowed to pass thru
> normally tho.
> 
> As for port scanners on Speedchoice - ha - ipchains logged only about 160K
> of rejections last week. As opposed to the same on 2 computers on Cox@Work /
> 400M and 560M respectively. Wanna see a computer brought to it's knees. Just
> start logging the bs activity on the @home shared bandwidth and by the end
> of the week, syslog will have it's hands full just putting the entries at
> the end of the logs.
> 
> In tracing the computers that were associated with the unauthorized and
> destructive accesses on 4 separate systems that I had set up, most of the
> connections were thru various home.com systems (rogers.home.com /
> bc.wave.home.com / on.wave.home.com).
> 
> By comparison, Speedchoice's bandwidth is serene compared to the
> unbelievable activity on @Work. Do they ever police their bandwidth?
> 
> Craig
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