Simple Solution to Spamming
Have you ever seen the Visa commercials depicting well choreographed customers happily flowing through coffee shops swiping their Visa cards only to have a cash wielding colleague gum up the works? The happy go lucky types are easily thrown off - a lot like spammer, it turns out.
Network World is reporting that Apache Group's Spamassassin will get an open source version of Traffic Control which slows connection speeds to suspected spammers. The commercial version has been well accepted. Quoting a customer, Network World says the simple technique works well:
``Traffic Control inserts itself between the heavy-lifting, mail-processing software and the client trying to contact you. It weeds out a huge amount of the spam with very simple, very quick techniques, the primary one being that it throttles down the speed of the connection. . . . Within 15 to 20 seconds, about 90% of the real spammers will have disconnected and gone away. Just the simple act of tar-pitting gets rid of a huge amount of spam in a very small, lightweight process.''
Gumming up the spamming works isn't so hard after all.
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