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Re: using spamd-setup without tarpitting

From: Christopher Vance (vanceaurema.com)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 01:35:07 CDT

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:57:41PM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote:
>Sure, but from what I understand the tarpit is cheap and the goal is to
>consume spammers' or hijacked machines' CPU.

CPU cheap, yes. Not so cheap if you have measured and limited network
traffic. Say 20 KBy per stalled message.

Now that spamd does greylisting, I'm much happier.

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Christopher Vance