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Date:      23 Feb 2005 09:48:12 +0100
From:      peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Remo.Lacho@verizon.net, Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de
Subject:   Re: Tarpitting Spam Traffic using PF...
Message-ID:  <86d5urd5mb.fsf@amidala.datadok.no>
In-Reply-To: <421821C7.6090308@forrie.com>
References:  <421821C7.6090308@forrie.com>

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Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> writes:

> I read about the spamd redirect in pf.conf.  

PF's spamd works rather well, but it will never be better than the
weakest data source.  spamd does greylisting as well, which I think is
possibly quite as useful as the tarpitting in stopping spam from
entering your system.  Then again, the tarpitting part is sometimes a
bit entertaining at least.

My take on this with some comments on our experience here can be found
at http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html, which is part of my pf
tutorial (starting at http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/ or
http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/ if your Norwegian is better than your
English)

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"



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