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TarProxy Creates Tar Pit... For Spammers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the feel-their-pain dept.

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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  1. Re:But why is the Spammer connected... by LinuxHam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why would you designate someone as "Foe" just because you don't agree with one thing they said

    I marked the last foe because he said that anyone who doesn't modify config files for gnome and the window manager environments is just a drooling idiot anyway and doesn't deserve to use Linux.

    We don't need that kind of crap thinking in our community, and now he's been permanuked with a -6, never to appear on /. again AFAIC.

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  2. CmdrTaco is STILL NEAT!! by spazoid12 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Important Stuff:
    Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.

    I noticed some of the moderation done within this thread. What a waste. And how ridiculous. When an original story post is a dupe how can any reply to it ever be considered off-topic or redundant?? Think about it. Any moderation within this thread is a waste of mod points.

    There's nothing to see here, move along, it's just another typical CmdrTaco post.

    Man, the dude is embarrassing. He obviously never reads /.