Roger Taranto wrote: > 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. :(
You mean a Teergrube (tarpit)? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teergrube
