Serge Orlov wrote: > Alex Reinhart wrote: >> Serge Orlov wrote: >>> IMHO it's pretty useless, spammers are starting to use botnets, and the >>> more you make inconvenient to them use open proxies, the more of them >>> will move to closed botnets. >> As long as I inconvenience them, or at least catch one or two, I'll be >> satisfied. > > What makes you think that spammers won't discover you're blackholing > their spam as soon as you start to make some impact on their business? > They will just skip your proxypots and move to real open proxies. There are so many spammers and (hopefully) more than one proxypot, so a stream of less-than-coordinated spammers would probably be caught. The more coordinated, careful ones would probably avoid them quickly enough, but I'm sure there are plenty of stupid spammers.
> I think you'll make bigger impact if you implement proxy checking > software <http://dsbl.org/programs> in Python, so it can run on windows > too. That would be a good goal as well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list