Spamholes Fighting Spammers

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.""

Comments

The best spamhole

[Sarojin]

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[Anonymous Coward]

I hate jewish.

A relay that doesn't relay

[blackbear]

Wow! Wish I'd thought of that one.

"I'll lure them in with the promise of an open relay...
Then BAM! Shut off their access."
Not like that happens every day.

Re:I don't think this will work..

[lynx_user_abroad]

If the message doesn't go through then its a 'blackhole' relay and they will find another one.

You give up too easily. If even one message gets through, you've at least found a system which is not firewalled-off from sending email. Root the system and install a custom SMTP agent and ignore the fact that it also runs a spamhole. At the very least, a system running a spamhole is a better target than your average box, because you know it can send mail.

Re:How can this work?

[Anonymous Coward]

You are such a SPAMHOLE!