[Mimedefang] SMTP Tarpit

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 23 May 2003 listuser at numbnuts.net wrote:

> Unfortunately I still have the problem of what to do
> with a spamware dictionary harvesting app checks the existence of a
> username it knows shouldn't exist.  I can't think of any good ways of
> doing that.

So reject the first 10 attempts, and thereafter, accept only 5% or so
of the attempts to make the statistics seem realistic.

Regards,

David.