AOL tarpitting?

Sat Nov 6 09:52:22 UTC 2004

-----Original Message-----

>From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
>Mark Jeftovic
>Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:26 PM
>To: nanog at 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