[plug] anti-spam: anyone using tarpitting successfully?

[Andrew Furey]

(A bit late - I was busy all weekend)

> I wonder about smtp tarpitting usefulness in a
> practical sense - is
> anyone using it successfully? (how is it set up?)

I presume you're talking about TarProxy (as seen at
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/28/2033230&mode=thread&tid=111
- and duped at
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1415257&mode=thread&tid=111
, of course).

It's certainly an interesting idea. I've been
considering running it on our main server, as we get
lots of spam for one domain in particular (a whole
bunch of email aliases).

The only problem I have with it is that it's written
in Java, and I don't feel like trusting my production
mailserver to it. If there was a Perl (or similar)
version I would be a lot happier...

Andrew

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