Re: [Exim] Idea to slow down spammers

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. The idea
> is to trap spammers in a really slow connection and if there were a lot
> of servers doing this - it could really bog down the servers of the big
> spammers.
>

This is already being done, check the list archives for "teergrube".
There are ACL recipes to get Exim to delay its responses to the sending
server. I have my server set up this way, and it occasionally keeps a
spammer connected for nearly ten minutes while try their stupid
dictionary attacks.