[Mimedefang] Extremism or just leveling the playing field..

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Ben Kamen wrote:

>Well, I did it last night - I wrote an event driven TCL script that 
>watches the mail log for sendmail's "RCPT Flood" message and then 
>blackholes the IP address... then, after a user specified time limit, it 
>will remove the blackhole automatically. Any add/delete actions are 
>saved in a text file in /tmp in case the system reboots or whatever... 
>so just run it again and it will fix itself. It's TCL - EVERYONE should 
>be able to make sense of it.
>

Well I wouldnt but that is besides the point :). I think David would 
appreciate ti though.

>If anyone would like a copy... feel free to contact me off the list.
>
>My only request if you're going to use it is not to laugh at my 
>programming. I'm not a programmer.. I'm a hardware guy who programs at 
>gunpoint. ;)
>

Thats ok, you can come to the Programmers Anonymous on Sundays.


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