Spam control? (was RE: virus)

[Derek Trotter]

I don't remember the url, but a few years ago I found a site that had an 
interesting  idea to fight those who try to con people into handing over 
account information.  If you got one of these scam emaills, you would 
submit the url the phishers included.  Their system would generate 
random strings of text and submit these to the phishing site over and 
over again. The result being the phishers would have lots of bogus 
account data and would waste their time trying it.

On 11/09/2012 08:51 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> 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).
>> ...
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