On Wednesday 24 March 2004 22:12, David Nicol wrote: > it used to be that if you gave yahoo an address in a SMTP transaction > that did not have brackets around it you would very shortly thereafter > receive a ping flood. Just another example of Yahoo doing things right, > I thought.
Ho ho ho... > This whole approach is ethically questionable, but do public smurf > amplifiers still exist? The nastier items, yes, but I don't think this basic idea of slowing down a spammer to let the DSBL lists etc. catch up is ethically dubious. Deciding to receive all of an email slowly before rejecting it might be using shared resources of internet bandwidth, but you're doing so to stop that bandwidth being used to just annoy other people. Spammers only understand the bottom line of cost vs benefit, and the more it costs to spam the more everyone else wins (looking at your email address at pay2send.com, I'm guessing you're already more than aware of this). But if I made this a "plugin return code" and then gave a master config item of "how many connections can be simultaneously tar-pitted rather than immediately dropped", you could always set that config item to 0. Cheers for the reply... -- Tim
