-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sam,
> > What a tarpit does do is use up another resource - > > elapsed time. However, this is not a critical > > resource for a spammer. A spammer can easily open > > several simultaneous connections to the same SMTP > > server. > > I don't see why the tarpit SMTP proxy shuld be unable > to limit all connections from the same IP and even > give "500 get lost for the time being" responses to > further connections from those IP so that it will not > accept too many connections from the same IP - or at > list if it looks like spam. I covered this objection in my original email. Given that spammers send out thousands of mails to different people on different servers all over the world, they will easily be able use up all their bandwidth without having more than 1 simultaneous connection to the same server. Andrew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPmXCIgXqoqbqowOrEQJ0wwCeIn6pMyqmMkfxnytWASWqUpn3784AnjtX rgb8eA+z+mTHzfjxrRFMGB2F =02Yq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
