Tarpitting

Adding a delay in an SMTP conversation between mail servers in order to thwart spammers. A mail server can be set up to insert delays between messages when a single e-mail has a large number of recipients. It could send "X" number of messages without adding any delay, then start inserting a delay of 'X" seconds between additional messages. For example, if a five-second delay were added to a million messages, it would take 60 days to release them from the mail server. The term comes from "tar pit." If you fell into one, you would be slowed down.

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