TarProxy Creates Tar Pit... For Spammers

agravaine writes "I ran across TarProxy, which, IMHO, is one of the cleverest spammer-handling ideas I've seen yet. The gist: Early detection of incoming spam [using the statistical techniques pioneered on the client side] could be used to create an artificial scarcity of bandwidth experienced only by spammers." This project hasn't gone very far yet, but essentially is slows SMTP requests to suspected spammers. If this really works, and is installed on enough of the net, it could work. 144 spam so far today. Anything would be an improvement. CT Yup, it's a dupe. There wasn't anything better to post at 9am on a sunday, so you can just bitch about me instead ;)

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Another similar project...

[jdreed1024]

I came across another similar project on Friday. I think a have a link to it somewhere...

Ah, here it is. Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain. Posted on some website named slashdot.org. It also called itself TarProxy and .... oh ... uh .... never mind.

Re:Deja Vu

[baptiste]

Maybe we can use statistical techniques on the client side to help the editors avoid duplicate stories.

How about a Slashdot tar-pit for editors?

[wackybrit]

Every time they post a dupe their bandwidth to Slashdot gets cut by half.

After a few dupes they end up with 5 minutes between server requests, which gives them ample time to check whether it was actually a dupe or not.

Et voila, a Slashdot that only gets 2 posts a day, but at least they're not dupes.

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[Dark Lord Seth]

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Re:Maybe just remove duplicates from the front pag

[Neon Spiral Injector]

Maybe there should be a special Dupe Section. It'll surely get more usage than the radio section.