On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > A few of my regular readers kept asking me for a greytrapping > retrospective. So when I saw that the number of imaginary friends (aka > spamtraps) was approaching the number of people in my home country, I > started looking at whatever data I had still around and my various field > notes. > > The result is a writeup titled > > Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? > > Available untracked at > https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html > > tracked at > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html > > Enjoy or ignore :)
Greytrapping is a term I wasn't familiar with previously. Is it correct to say that greytrapping is basically enforced greylisting, disallowing the success of any retry for a defined interval? In your case, a 24 hour long blocking of the IP after initial connect? Are you still generally happy with it, feeling that it stops some significant amount of spam successfully? Beyond the limitation of this being doable on IPv4 only currently. Cheers, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson // 312-725-0130 // Chicago http://www.spamresource.com // Deliverability http://www.aliverson.com // All about me https://xnnd.com/calendar // Book my calendar _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
