Spamholes Fighting Spammers

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @01:12AM from the simple-and-clever dept.

mike9010 writes "A person named I)ruid has come up with an ingenious way to combat those spammers. His program, spamhole, creates a false 'open relay' that the spammer thinks he/she can send messages through. The messages then get sent nowhere, and the spammer has no idea. "spamhole is an open project. Hopefully, through user's and developer's contributions, we will amass a collection of spamhole implementations spanning all commonly used platforms, programming languages, etc. Ease of configuration and use are the primary objectives, for the easier to use by the non-techical layperson the implementations are, the more widely adopted and used spamhole will become.""

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Nice spinoff... by Glock27 · 2003-12-09 01:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I've got some new invective:
Stick it in your spamhole, pal!
Perfect...

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1. Re:Nice spinoff... by nickyj · 2003-12-09 01:23 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I thought that my bosses mouth was a spamhole. I guess I was wrong.
  
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Typical five minutes h4x0r fix by Rogerborg · 2003-12-09 01:16 · Score: 5, Funny

+ Five minutes to implement.
+ It will fool spammers for five minutes.
+ Your ISP will disconnect you after five minutes.

Let's chalk this one up as yet another "nice try, shame about the lack of planning".

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Re:Spamming method by Mirk · 2003-12-09 01:19 · Score: 4, Funny

at the end of the day the only good solution to fix spammers is hit them where it hurts in the pockets.

Well, I'm told hitting them in the kneecaps can be quite effective too.

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Re:Spamming method by rf0 · 2003-12-09 01:24 · Score: 2, Funny

Kneecaps are to quick and not painful enough. You want something more drawn out. Prehaps electrodes attached to the testicals

Rus

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The Power of the Lexicon by Asprin · 2003-12-09 01:28 · Score: 3, Funny

That's not what a 'spamhole' is around *my* office. Pfft!

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Re:Spamming method by swordboy · 2003-12-09 01:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Alternatively, you could hit their house. It really is amazing that a spammer would use their home address to register their spam business. In case you were wondering, the delivery joints in this area won't deliver stuff to this address anymore. Mr. Ralsky apparently didn't pay for *any* of the last 500 large with pineapple and andchovie pizzas that were ordered.

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Re:I don't think this will work.. by Frisky070802 · 2003-12-09 01:29 · Score: 3, Funny

One question though, what happens when the spammers themselves get word of this?
Oh, you mean like when they read about it on Slashdot?

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Re:Not going to work by Leffe · 2003-12-09 01:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Spammers and virus writers together have already designed a distributed architecture in which they can send emails from hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of 'owned' personal computers.

I won't beleive it until I see the RFC.
Re:How can this work? by glassesmonkey · 2003-12-09 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Talk about arms race.. Now spammers will maintain blacklists for spamholes!
Re:How can this work? by pipingguy · 2003-12-09 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Spam eats up bandwidth just being delivered, even if it gets filtered at the end anyway

Yeah, but just think of all the extra bandwidth we'll have once UCE, viruses and scammail are finally banished by the Spamish Inquisition (nobody expects the Spamish Inquisition)!