On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
On 2010-03-30 01:29, Brent Kennedy wrote:
I think after I turned it on, the botnet plug-in got bored. My stats
for it dropped significantly. So that’s my proof it does adversely
affect botnets.
No, that's your proof that it has a positive impact on your incoming
mail stream. It does not prove that it have a significant negative
impact on the botnets.
I think that TCP tarpits would have more effect on the botnets than
greylisting. However, "more" might still be "not very much", particularly
in the absence of _widespread_ TCP tarpitting of bots.
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