OT: How to defeat address harvesting; like this..???

[Alex Neuman]

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There are things you can do to sendmail and other MTA's that slow down 
the spammer's attacks by delaying further and further every connection 
attempt (or RCPT TO: attempt) by seconds or more.

Try:

http://www.technoids.org/dossed.html


Peter Russell wrote:

> The wiki on the mailscanner site has at least 2 guides for beating 
> these types of attacks. ALl pretty simple to implment.
>
> Good Luck
> Pete
>
> Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> DNSAdmin wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:12 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> How do I defeat this??? Any decent suggestions appreciated! I might
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> even
>>>>
>>>>> consider the baseball bat if he/she were in my backyard!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have CentOS 3.4, Sendmail 8.12, MailScanner 4.41, SpamAssassin 2.55
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA!
>>>>> Glenn Parsons
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I found these in a 5 second search of Google;
>>>> http://www.amiga.ch/spamtracker/
>>>> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=8920/sam0311k/0311k.htm
>>>> You can probably find more.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank You Scott,
>>>
>>> I must brush up on my Google skills again! I'll try again with this.
>>> Thanks for your links! Very good.
>>>
>>> Thank you Sir!
>>>
>>
>> I did not mean to put down your Google skills, I was just letting you
>> know it wasn't an exhaustive search. I'm short handed today, and am
>> wearing even more hats then usual!
>>
>>
>
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