Re: [tlug] Spam Question

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Jim O'Connell (Tue 2002-10-22 02:24:38PM +0900):
> 
> I was talking with my brother the other day and we were talking about
> writing a bogus mail server to sit waiting for spammers on IP addresses
> that have web servers (that also have other servers configured as MX hosts)
> The idea was to keep the spambot busy with a lot of delays and
> seemingly-valid responses.  How long can you string out a mail conversation?
> HELO? HELO?   ;-)

An amusing idea. One neat trick would be to play with the TCP connexion at a
low level. Dropping your advertised buffer size to 1 leaps to mind.


-- 
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

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