On Tuesday 15 June 2004 02:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* jfweber@bellsouth.net
[06-14-04 17:55]: variation on a tarpit I guess... Let us know what you discover ;)
I believe the term is either tarbaby (Unkle Remus) or honeypot.
The various clever systems for bogging down spammers' SMTP are called tarpits, I understand, the idea being that they wallow in them and finally drown like the woolly mammoths of yore. There's some quite interesting discussion of this periodically on the OpenBSD lists. But that's as much as I know.
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