Because eventually they will hit a valid mailbox. No tarpit is perfect.
But why is courier not tarpitting these connections as quickly as the others? It seems that they can get off 10-20 attempts a couple of seconds apart, compared to 3-4 from others. (or maybe it's the multiple-connection thing? shouldn't the tarpit be smart enough to tarpit the IP and not just the connection?) There's only one valid address on that domain, so it's unlikely that they hit it THAT often.
No tarpit is 100% effective, but without it you'd have even longer logs, and even more crap in the mailboxes.
Yeah. No complaints there. Just trying to understand it better.
-Chris
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