* Pierre Habouzit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050617 17:08]: > Le Ven 17 Juin 2005 14:13, Steve Greenland a écrit : > > On 17-Jun-05, 01:41 (CDT), Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > the delay it creates. [...] but for our @debian.org addresses ... > > > that sucks, I often rely on the fact that delivery is immediate on > > > those. > > > > Then you don't understand how the internet and SMTP works. There is > > absolutely no guarantee the mail will be delivered immediately, and > > no reasonable expectation of such. > > > > As a practical matter, the only time the delay is significant is when > > trying to carry on an e-mail conversation, which by very definition > > is not going to be delayed after the first exchange. > > I perfectly understand what SMTP is, and I perfectly *don't* understand > why having a 30 minutes delay or even a 2 or 3 hours delay in some > conditions is tolerable.
Come one. We're speaking on additional 5 minutes on the first connection. Greylist works quite well for me, and I really hope that we manage to deploy anti-spam-tools on Debian. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]