OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

Wed Jul 6 10:02:29 UTC 2005

At 1:27 AM -0400 2005-07-06, Valdis.Kletnieks at 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 at stop.mail-abuse.org>

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