RE: email address probes

And spammers have gotten smart; if they notice a teergrube (what this used to be called), they route their attempt through a different proxy, rotating them as they slow down. So it's only marginally effective against good ones (who are savvy enough to harvest in the manner you are observing).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Beckert - ecos gmbh [mailto:beckert@ecos.de]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: Andy Bastien
> Cc: incidents@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: email address probes
>
>
> Hi!
>
> About tarpits and teergrubes:
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=2j0kb9.j97.ln%40ne ws.lorenzmatthias.de&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1 %26q%3Dteergrube%26btnG%3DGoogle-Suche%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dthur.net.admin

            Kind regards, Axel Beckert

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