The ones that weren't well behaved back then found themselves in a tarpit (which was also a 'what you do with spam email sites connecting on port 25'). https:/

The ones that weren't well behaved back then found themselves in a tarpit (which was also a 'what you do with spam email sites connecting on port 25'). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking) The thing was that you'd send everything that was requesting faster than some rate limit to that tarpit unless it was google.