7 Feb
2010
7 Feb
'10
12:18 a.m.
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:00:43PM +0100, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
Marcello's story about big-pipe servers settling on pg makes me think of a Borg spaceship passing over a peaceful little village.
At the risk of sounding like Eleanor Clift's response to the Soviets in "The Watchmen" movie, I'll ask: So what on earth are these big-pipe servers doing?
Most of them are collecting innocent-looking phrases to inject into spam mails.
Did you ever look into mod_evasive or a similar approach? It's a good way of automatically shutting down abusers. Takes some tuning (a bit like spam filters). This is something iBiblio would be happy to help with, I'm sure. http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/ -- Greg