im also no big fan of this feature. But we a custumer of us want this feature so i add it.
bye Am Freitag, den 07.04.2006, 10:43 -0400 schrieb Noel J. Bergman: > "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] > > !EXCUBATOR:1,44367aa237021853784840!
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