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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 ;)
Read about it a couple days ago!
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Duplicate Slashdot Story.
How 'bout some changes to Slashcode so that story submissions containing URLs from past stories are flagged as "HEY, PROLLY A DUPE!" to the editors...
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original article
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0 2/28/2033230&mode=thread&tid=111
In fairness, not a total dupe, but you're still fired.
How about somebody modifies this so that if Slashdot editors post duplicate stories it throttles their bandwidth. The quicker the dupe, the higher the throttling.
Yep, another dupe :)
Seems like the slashdot people have been a little high on tar.
This new program makes a breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology.
Giving the actual threat of "Slashdotting" (TM), the the high rate of internet use, and the geometrical increase of Slashdot hard disk usage, this kind of advance is a God-given gift.
Essentially, it slow downs news sites posting duplicates articles, slowing down the comment rate, and the people that follow links or make a big hit in remote site performance have now little performance impact (the ones that still follow the link have in their cache most of the remote site content already).
"Its wonderful" a webmaster says... "wish that more high traffic news sites use that technology. The risk that a site with a cool technology will stop answering requests has clearly decreased since the introduction of TarSlash"
In related news, Slashdot administrators have found that news posting has increaed the compressed ratio in the archives. There are several theories that could explain that, maybe english is evolving and this last times fewer different words are used, increasing compress ratio, or articles language is being normalized, so postings are slowly being more similar each time.
This TarPit thing was already discussedon Slashdot this week.