From: Hans Spaans (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 10:03:30 EST
On Sunday 01 February 2004 14:36, Orlando Andico wrote:
> 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...
Not completly true, we have a spammer in the Netherlands that tries al
the known open proxies/relays until the message is delivered ;-)
Hans
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"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only
coded it."
-- Linus Torvalds
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