on 5/26/2003 2:26 PM Markku Savela wrote: > The best techical solution that has been proposed seems to be the > "tarpit" solution: detect spam on the fly and slow down the reception > to trickle as "spamminess" grows. The great feature of this is, that > it actually would keep spam "off my network" by stopping the flow. How so? As I have heard it used in the common sense, it allows delivery to some and slows the delivery to others, but doesn't prevent any of it. Even in those cases of cooperative tarpits that cooperate to consume socket resources on the spamming host, some recipients still have to take the pain before the cooperative nets can respond. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/