From: Rene Bartsch (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 08:49:11 EST
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 14:36 schrieb Orlando Andico:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> ..
>
> > So a friendly mailer would get a error-report if his mail has been
> > mis-detected and a spammer would get an error-report making him aware
> > this address is useless for him.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> waste of effort. spammers dont check the return value. we took down one of
> our SMTP's for a couple months. removed it from DNS. when you brought up
> another machine on the same IP several months later, it immediately was
> inundated by connects from Spamhaus-listed IPs.
>
> moral of the story: they don't even check if the IP is reachable!! they
> just attempt to connect and connect and connect...
>
Tar pit - then they'll remove your smtp-server from their lists ...
Rene
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