[75145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL tarpitting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Sat Nov 6 04:52:57 2004
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 04:52:22 -0500
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9F24CFC4C14AA141AD4503E0DBAF143A0691E6@pdc.vortechexchange.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
>Mark Jeftovic
>Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:26 PM
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: AOL tarpitting?
>
>
>The new route was tarpitted within 24 hours and absolutely nothing
>was communicated to us about it via the "feedback loop".
>
>Does that thing actually work?
>
>Any contacts, on or off list who could advise?
>
>-mark
>
>
The feedback loop seems to work quite well though we see a lot of what I
consider to be bogus spam reports (not mass mail - just the usual idiots
forwarding jokes, mail from their own employers, etc.).. I suspect some
AOL users think the 'report as spam' button is the delete key - it was
pointed out that they are next to each other on the menu.
The reports have helped us to find a few low volume exploits of scripts
(<100 messages /day) on the web servers that we probably would not have
found otherwise.
Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
