Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 17:20:06 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need a leads for help with an unusual networking project. Message-ID: <1894.882753606@monkeys.com>
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Greetings, I wonder if you can maybe suggest to me some people are on intimate terms with the TCP/IP code in FreeBSD. I need to get some help for a very important project. In a nutshell, I, together with a large number of other ardent anti-spammers am hatching a plan to put a real crimp in the style of the net's multitude of E-mail spammers. Part of the overall plan is to create a specialized version of the TCP/IP networking code... either in FreeBSD or else in Linux... which will, by intent, behave badly. Specifically, the idea is to create a special- purpose version of the networking code that will allow _all_ TCP traffic to port 25 to be slowed down by some arbitrary amount to be determined later. (The amount of slowdown will have to be calibrated so as to cause maximum damage to the spammers.) Basically, I just want the TCP packet ACKs to be slowed down as much as possible without making the remote end of the connection give up (yet), and I want this to happen _only_ for traffic coming in to port 25. Can you help me find someone who could create such a special purpose version of the FreeBSD TCP/IP code? I'll pay for the work if necessary, but ideally I am hoping to find someone who hates E-mail spam as much as I do and who might be willing to work on this small project for the sheer glory of it. (Imagine being an integral part of the team that wiped out E-mail spam forever on the net!) I have some hope that we can make a REALLY substantial dent in the junk E-mail problem on the net... if the whole plan of attack comes together, that is. Thanks in advance for any leads. -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/
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