Re: email address probes

At 8:54 PM +0000 2/5/03, Andy Bastien wrote:
>which we don't want to block. I suppose that we could accept the

The only solution I know of is to tarpit the server based on number of bounces. The more it bounces, the more slowly you get around to handling responses from it. I don't know of any off-the-shelf solutions that to do that though. And furthermore, if you start doing it, they'll just start distributing the tests across different targets--so then you'll need a distributed tarpit database similar to the RBLs.

-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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