[Spambayes] Seeking Peer Review - Spamish Inquisition

[Skip Montanaro]

    David> The anti-spam countermeasures consist of sending back incomplete
    David> SMTP response lines, to tie up the incoming SMTP connection for
    David> any desired length of time.

Have you considered what the effect might be on a system being inundated
with spam or viruses as we are currently?  You might have dozens or hundreds
of processes (threads) dribbling responses back to the sending MTA.  All
those processes, while not doing much, might well be chewing up enough
resources to bring the machine to its knees.

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