Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software that dispatches an email to the sender of any email that is temporarily rejected and doesn't retry within a certain amount of time? The email could say something like, "Your message of {date} was rejected as possible spam. Please call us at {phone_number}."
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