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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. Remember, email CmdrTaco! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    He said last time he did a dupe (that 2 hour between stories dupe) that no one emailed him. EMAIL HIM! LET HIM KNOW HE SCREWED UP!

  2. Re:God, why do people care about duplicate stories by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, yeah, it's amusing to catch the editors making a mistake, but by now I find the people snidely pointing this out to be only about 100x as annoying as the occasional duplication. In fact, I think the editors shouldn't change a thing about their process - occasional duplication can even be good... as for instance in this case, where I apparently missed the story the first time, and am glad I got a 2nd chance to learn about this.

    Don't you think the editors should respost EVERY STORY POSSIBLY INTERESTING, so you won't miss any because you, oh, I don't know, CAN'T SEARCH THE ARCHIVES?

    Hell yeah! Great idea!!1!