[Mimedefang] Interesting idea to hassle spammers

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 WBrown at e1b.org wrote:

> I've noticed that some of the spam we are receiving is being directed to
> an MX that has a higher preference setting in the DNS.  What would happen
> if I were to add a MX 200 record and point it to a tar pit?  Slow those
> lying scum right down if enough people do that!

My thoughts on tarpits are at:

http://www.google.ca/groups?selm=9GudnWadm76znyGjXTWcqQ%40magma.ca&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

The article is entitled "Tarpitting is useless", which pretty much sums
up my belief. :-)

Regards,

David.