Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> > teergrube? hmmm... what's that? I'm getting on the upwards of 100
> > emails a day and that *with* digests of what I am following for work...
> >
>
> Thats a 'tarpit' in German.
>
> The idea is that you slow down the snmp connection for known spammers
> so that they either:
>
> 1 detect that you are a slow connection and drop you
> or
> 2 - don't detect that you are working on holding them back from their
> massive spam attempt - in which case the more people who do this,
> the less spam they can send.
>
> Some folks think that tarpits don't work. but then, some tarpits
> are set up poorly. 10 seconds is NOT a good pit! I prefer 10
> seconds for the NORMAL (non-pit) mode (but I'm going to be
> experimenting with longer times), and a day (or more) for
> the tarpit...
True... 10 seconds (human time) is really nothing to volume trafic
across major mail nodes. 10 minuites on the otherhand may be anoying.
several days even better...
EBo --
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