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Re: Teergrube (was Re: MTA: usage of smart host)



On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:05:58AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> More attractively, you could set up a teergrube.  This is a host that
> acts as a tarpit for spammers.  With sufficient numbers of teergrubes
> running (several thousand would be sufficient), spam mail hosts and
> relays would get "stuck" on open channels, and would have effective
> delivery greatly reduced.  This requires realtime spam detection on
> connection by the remote spam host.
> 
> Question for the gallery:  is there a decent teergrube package available
> for Debian?  If not, what is the most feasible solution?

yes!  apt-get install sugarplum!  it's not set up to teergrube by
default, but it's changing like two or three well commented lines in a
config file to get it going.  let me know if it works for you (i'm the
maintainer).


	sean

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