Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.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. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>