Karl Auerbach <karl(_at_)cavebear(_dot_)com> writes:
The core aspect of the idea is to make my TCP stack as near-dead as
possible, without actually being dead, to incoming spam. That will
cause spam transfers to take orders of magnitude more time than they do
today.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work. The spam software is either
multithreaded or is using open relays and/or open proxies (which are a
much larger problem than open relays in many respects) and therefore don't
even notice.
Furthermore, they can completely ignore the effects of such a system with
the simple expedient of a timeout in their software. They're not that
stupid.
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Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>