Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:43:41 +0300 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wpoison????? Message-ID: <j2ma0777e081004260643ya31b42d7g29c45348e6c3d85c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100426124453.GB74442@elwood.starfire.mn.org> References: <4BD3E9B8.2030109@comclark.com> <20100426124453.GB74442@elwood.starfire.mn.org>
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> I'm pretty concerned about its effectiveness. =C2=A0It appears not to hav= e > been touched since 2001. =C2=A0If it actually accomplished its goals, I t= hink > it would have been tuned up a bit, and it would be much more popular. > I've been hanging around the web quite a bit in the last nine years, and > it concerns me that I've never run into it before. I've heard of this program (and others like it) many times. The big problem with its effectiveness is that the generated emails don't actually work. Spammers generally send at least one probe message to create a "working emails" list which can sell for a higher price. There are better systems that have a pure honeypot which actually accepts mail (and add the IPs that send mail to a blacklist)
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