Kevin Parris wrote:
Well now, if a spambot actually does start recognizing and avoiding his system, doesn't that mean he wins and the spammer loses?
I would say YES!
You should make an effort to clean it up so that others *can* install it as a standalone daemon, as I suggested. Why? How long will it be before the spambots explicitly refuse to contact your honeypot if it is listed as an MX for the domain they're attacking?
I don't see that happening. If the spammers were that sharp they would send quit and close the connection properly and defeat the meathod rather than defeating just me. But it would cost them some bandwidth and speed to do that. Especially if I added some delays before doing the rejection which would cause the spammer to have to keep the connection open longer which they aren't going to do.
I'm going to think about the delay thing. You inspired possibly another good idea.
