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At 1:27 AM -0400 2005-07-06, [email protected] wrote: Which is why I prefer to set up a tarpit as my high-MX spamtrap, but not make it do anything permanent or even long-lasting. If you're a legitimate sender talking to my tarpit, it'll take you a while to discover that you can't make it through, and you should be able to successfully retransmit at a later time. If you're a spammer, it'll take you a while to discover you can't make it through, but then you probably won't try again.And in fact, given that most link hiccups *are* transitory, the chances are *good* that if our attempts at the first MX fail, the link will be back before we finish running through the MX's - at which point we find ourselves talking to a spamtrap. -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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