On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:23:27 -0700 Marc Perkel <marc@???> 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 idea is rather crude but - who likes this idea?
it's called a tarpit.
it's been around for a few years. it was more effective against older
generations of spamware, which weren't multithreaded.
richard
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