Giving spammers a hard time (cont'd)

But the record did not stand for long:

peter@delilah:~$ grep disconnected /var/log/spamd | awk '{print $9}' | sort -rn | uniq -c | head
   1 42673
   1 36099
   1 14714
   1 10170
   1 5966
   1 5878
   1 5866
   1 5845
   1 5709
   1 5707

42673 seconds = almost twelve hours! (others have reported >60K seconds)

Dec 21 14:22:44 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: connected (5/2)
Dec 21 14:22:46 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: connected (6/2)
Dec 21 14:22:47 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected
after 3 seconds.
Dec 22 02:13:59 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected
after 42673 seconds.