On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:51:57 +1000, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. Well, admittedly, I greylist just my mail, so this is different. But I don't read/answer mail immediately anyway (unless you are paying my paycheck, and those don't get greylisted either), so people have to get used to email to me not being answered until I get around to reading it -- which may be days, at times. > Why is it tolerable to receive 200 spams in a day? On a bad day I > will receive over 100 spams even though I use most of the anti-spam > measures that some people in this discussion don't like. It is not. I get about 7-10 a week, out of a daily email volume of 800-1000 emails. And I used to check every mail registered as Spam until 6 months ago, and now do random spot checks when I have time -- and the last false positive I had was last October. I don't use RBL based blocking. I do use CRM114 in conjunction with spamassassin witrh bayes, and I use greylisting on messages likely to be Spam. CRM114 did need a while to get trained right, though. But one does not need to accept swaths of collateral damage in order to reduce Spam volumes, in my experience. manoj -- I waited and waited, and when nobody called, I knew it was from you. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]