Wpoison?????

John john at starfire.mn.org
Mon Apr 26 14:35:15 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 04:43:41PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > I'm pretty concerned about its effectiveness. ??It appears not to have
> > been touched since 2001. ??If it actually accomplished its goals, I think
> > it would have been tuned up a bit, and it would be much more popular.
> > I've been hanging around the web quite a bit in the last nine years, and
> > it concerns me that I've never run into it before.
> I've heard of this program (and others like it) many times. The big
> problem with its effectiveness is that the generated emails don't
> actually work. Spammers generally send at least one probe message to
> create a "working emails" list which can sell for a higher price.
> There are better systems that have a pure honeypot which actually
> accepts mail (and add the IPs that send mail to a blacklist)

OK - where do we find one of THOSE?
-- 

John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG


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