Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-25 Thread Phil Howard
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 22:18, Peter Evans wrote: >        If you are bored, you can turn on a catchall, pipe that to a bit >        bucket and see how many you get. >        In fact, here are some results for you. (no spam filters on the work > box due to >        manglement fiat "IT COULD BE A

Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-23 Thread mouss
Tom Hendrikx a écrit : > On 23/06/10 16:28, Phil Howard wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 16:46, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >>> A word of caution: don't assume that everyone browses the web using a >>> graphical web browser. People still browse from the command line, and more >>> importantly, scre

Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/23/2010 11:21 AM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: Actually, when using a visual browser, people still can use their own colouring (again, the visually impaired). What you are suggesting is generating browser-specific output. This practise has been tried, tested, and discarded in webdesign country for

Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-23 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:21:21 +0200 Tom Hendrikx articulated: > Keep in mind: automated harvesters can impersonate regular people (or > browsers), but they cannot think like one. Which, in some instances, might be considered a good thing. -- Jerry ✌ postfix-u...@seibercom.net

Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-23 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 23/06/10 16:28, Phil Howard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 16:46, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> A word of caution: don't assume that everyone browses the web using a >> graphical web browser. People still browse from the command line, and more >> importantly, screen readers for the disabled.

Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-23 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 16:46, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > A word of caution: don't assume that everyone browses the web using a > graphical web browser. People still browse from the command line, and more > importantly, screen readers for the disabled. If you're going to hide an > address, make su

Re: fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/22/2010 02:30 PM, Phil Howard wrote: I saw fail2ban discussed in another thread. I was wondering if anyone here have used it to block based on spamtraps. I want to set up a number of dummy users and splatter their email addresses where spammers would get at them (e.g. white on white text

fail2ban for spamtraps

2010-06-22 Thread Phil Howard
I saw fail2ban discussed in another thread. I was wondering if anyone here have used it to block based on spamtraps. I want to set up a number of dummy users and splatter their email addresses where spammers would get at them (e.g. white on white text on web pages, etc). Then ban the IPs that tr