"Tarpitting" is used to refer to any of several things, e.g., http://www.merakmailserver.com/Knowledgebase/Merak_Mail_Server/Security/Tarpitting.asp
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/tarpit.html We have just added the latter, not the former. I am not sure how effective either of these strategies is in a world dominated by MS-Windows spambots. The only resources really being tied up are the SMTP server's own sockets. Spammers don't care about resources being tied up on the millions of Microsoft-provided spam machines. We probably should add a comment to warn admins who miss the point that it is their own sockets that will be tied up for the duration of the tarpitted session. At such point as we eliminate the thread-per-socket requirement by adopting NIO (perhaps via MINA), this may be more practical, but I'm not sure how well MINA would support this notion. I've a totally separate concern about some of the recent modifications in general, but I'll raise that separately. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
