Spam control? (was RE: virus)

[Carruth, Rusty]

As I remember (but remember whose memory we are talking about :-) -

I had 3 lists - those known to be spammers, those known to be ok, and
anybody else.  (Ok, so the 'anybody else' wasn't actually a LIST, it was
anybody not in the first 2 lists)

Known spammers got some huge delay (I think I finally ended up with 24
hours!), known safe senders got zero delay, and unknown got a few
seconds (or maybe I made it zero, I don't remember).

So non spammers got either zero or minimal delay.

If I can remember, I'll see if I still have that config file somewhere,
cause now you got me curious!

I should mention that there IS one 'small' downside - if you get ALL
your internet sockets tied up with spammers then you cannot receive (or
send) email (or do anything else network-related until one of the
sockets frees up).  I don't think I ever hit that limit, but then I only
do email for my family...

Rusty

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Rusty, how did tarpit and that delay time effect non spam users?
> 
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Carruth, Rusty
> <Rusty.Carruth at smartstoragesys.com> wrote:
> > ....
> >
> > 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).
> ...