[Mimedefang] Interesting idea to hassle spammers

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 12/30/2003 09:49:51 
AM:
> 
> 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.

You make some good points there that I hadn't considered.  I still think 
that using a high number MX record with something to accept connections 
and discard/bounce messages would trap those spammers and virii that do 
not go to the lowest numbered MX per RFC.