You can also impose this cost on spammers by enabling the GreetPause
feature in the more recent versions of sendmail. This tells sendmail not
to answer right away when receiving a connection, and to drop the
connection if anything is received before the greeting is sent out. This
punishes slammer
Mike Jackson wrote:
You can also impose this cost on spammers by enabling the GreetPause
feature in the more recent versions of sendmail. This tells sendmail not
to answer right away when receiving a connection, and to drop the
connection if anything is received before the greeting is sent out.
mouss wrote:
so greetpause will certainly stop some ratware spam, but is not a
full solution.
Agreed. Spammers have access to all the free CPU bandwidth and processing time
they can steal - legitimate MTAs are limited to a budget. Any anti-spam
solution that simply rewards CPU and bandwidth
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:37 PM -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed. Spammers have access to all the free CPU bandwidth and
processing time they can steal - legitimate MTAs are limited to a budget.
Any anti-spam solution that simply rewards CPU and bandwidth spent* is
playing into the
