Re: [Exim] Idea to slow down spammers

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Author: Mike Meredith
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Idea to slow down spammers
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 16:23, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Here's an interesting thought to help fight spam. The idea to to trap
> spammers into a really slow connection taking up huge amounts of
> resources on the spammers servers and basically trapping them.


It's been done. Search for "tarpit" on the Exim mailing list archive.
I'm tarpitting between 20-1000 servers at any 1 time.

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