On Jul 03 23:44:55, pe...@bsdly.net wrote: > Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > > I had a spammer tied up with spamd for a total of 4hours in 20 minute > > sessions. He was trapped by greyscanner and two dnsbl. The spammers > > saving grace from this award is the last two entries dropped to 20 > > seconds rather than 20 minutes before disconnection so I guess this > > ones no longer a single cell organism. > > > > Anyone got a candidate story for "The most idiotic spammer award"? > > Well, you've got a fairly strong candidate right there. It's also > possible that a bit of data mining on the spamd logs in our various > crypts could be a source of entertainment. > > Here at here at bsdly.net and friendlies we've had some hanging on for > hours for a single failed delivery attempt (see eg [1]) and while I was > tending more actively to my spambait address list ([2]) I noticed quite > a few that would spend weeks after getting greytrapped, attempting to > deliver to every last one of the 10,000+ addresses in that list.
I have recently set up something similar at my MX, with some simple statistics displayed at stare.cz/spam/ The most hardworking spambot so far spent 321616 seconds talking to spamd, a bit short of four days of time.
