[Greylist-users] Side benefit

[Evan Harris]

I've noticed a dropoff in spam attempts as well, probably due to that
reason.  In fact, if you look at the traffic patterns of the spam attempts,
there is a particular type of spambot that does dictionary attacks.  I think
spam gangs use those special machines to pull the addresses that they
verify as working into their spam lists.

But since greylisting blocks all of those attempts (they happen only once
per random recipient), I'm betting that even when they do happen to hit a
valid email address, they still see the error and consider it an invalid
user, and cleanse it from their lists.

Evan


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Alan Batie wrote:

> When I first started running greylisting, mysql reported 7-8 queries/sec.
> I rebooted after updating the kernel this weekend, and noticed that it's
> now reporting about 4 queries/sec --- I have a suspicion that the errors
> are causing the addresses to get scrubbed from the spammer lists...
>
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