It would be an interesting addition to a honeypot. Make the mail server just
hang up and not respond to tie up connections on the spammer.
- bfn - JAW
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Roger Taranto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:37:44 -0800
>On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:17, Matt Kettler wrote:
>> Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>> > Spammers need to clean their address lists once in a while, lest they
>> > end up with a very low proportion of valid addresses, right?
>>
>> No, they don't have to clean it.
>
>If it didn't tie up sockets on our machines, it seems like instead of
>rejecting the mail, we should just hold on to the mail connection for as
>long as possible. It wouldn't take too long to tie up all of their
>outbound connections and back up their mail server. Unfortunately, it
>punishes our mail servers, too. :(
>
>My aunt tells this story about her father: he used to invite members of
>an annoying religious group that goes door-to-door in for hours on
>Saturday mornings. My aunt's mother used to get really upset with him
>for spending so much time with them. His explanation was that "at least
>this way I know where they are."
>
>-Roger
>
