Talk:Tarpit (networking)

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Singular preferred, disambig if necessary if anyone ever writes about tarpits... I mean, about the LaBrea... oh, you know what I mean. ;) -- John Owens 08:01 May 9, 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Tarpit = Teergrube?

Is this the same thing as Teergrube, or is a Teergrube one of several kinds of Tarpit? Could somebody explain how they relate to each other, or point out differences? If they are the same, the articles should be merged. If not, Teergrube should get a stub notice. Thanks in advance, Wikipeditor 17:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

They appear to be the identical thing. But as these are simply the German and English versions of the same concept with essentially the same information, shouldn't this just be moved to the German Wikipedia? --Happylobster 14:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is it okay to mention commercial implementations?

The article made mention of several open source tar pits, but few of them are in use at large sites.

I thought it would be useful to take some content from Stopping_e-mail_abuse and merge it into this article.

If this isn't appropriate, please go ahead and remove my edits.

[edit] When did it all start?

Labeling a section “The original tarpit idea” and then writing “Tom Liston developed the original tarpitting program ‘LaBrea’” may be misleading if it suggests that the concept of tarpits in general didn't exist before LaBrea.

Liston says “[t]he original concept for LaBrea started in response to the CodeRed worm”,[1] that is, not earlier than mid-July 2001, whereas Lutz Donnerhacke published a Teergruben FAQ as early as 1997-09-15. I don't know who originally came up with the idea, so perhaps somebody else can shed some light on the origins of tarpits. Wikipeditor 03:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is greylisting tarpitting?

I don't think the various SMTP approaches count as tarpits. A tarpit should actively try to hamper and delay malicious traffic, not just block or avoid it.

-k —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.134.28.194 (talk) 07:59, 21 December 2007 (UTC)