[Mimedefang] SMTP Tarpit

[David F. Skoll]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 19:19, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > Summary: I think tarpitting is useless to fight spam.
> I'm not so sure... I think TEMP_FAILing anything questionable a time
> or two would make it substantially more expensive to deliver
> spam

Ah, yes, that's definitely worth doing.  But I used "tarpitting" in the
sense of slowing down the actual SMTP session in the hope of consuming
more resources on the sender end.  That's what I consider useless.

--
David.