[82034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Fri Jul 8 15:37:40 2005
In-Reply-To: <200507060527.j665RKx2018185@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:02:29 +0200
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 1:27 AM -0400 2005-07-06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> And in fact, given that most link hiccups *are* transitory, the chances
> are *good* that if our attempts at the first MX fail, the link will be
> back before we finish running through the MX's - at which point we find
> ourselves talking to a spamtrap.
Which is why I prefer to set up a tarpit as my high-MX spamtrap,
but not make it do anything permanent or even long-lasting. If
you're a legitimate sender talking to my tarpit, it'll take you a
while to discover that you can't make it through, and you should be
able to successfully retransmit at a later time. If you're a
spammer, it'll take you a while to discover you can't make it
through, but then you probably won't try again.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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