> > Question two. Can someone suggest a way that I can get qmail to do
> > tarpitting, or at least point me to a good wrapper to do tarpitting??
>
> John Levine has such a thing. He's deep in the throes of finishing a
> book, and I don't know if he kibos, so I'll CC: him just to get his
> attention.
I have a small patch that sticks sleeps in front of each read call in
qmail-smtpd. It's not a real tarpit, but it does slow spammers down.
It's controlled by a TARPIT environment variable that I set in
hosts.allow. Will package it up and send it along.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
