On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:51:36 -0700 Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote:
> What I don't do it set an outgoing voicemail greeting informing > correspondents that my time is more valuable than theirs, and if they > want to contact me I have a list of hoops through which they must > jump. > > That would make me an asshole. Hardly but it is a world full of major assholes and being slightly assholeish would be ok if it helped fight them but greylisting is not assholeish at all. Major providers making greylisting difficult is being an asshole. Fast greylisting (couple of minutes) is on the rise because it works, so they will hopefully change. CDN (content delivery networks changing IPs and complicating CA trust) are a far more assholeish hack. I admit the implementations are more hackish than they could be but if greylisting which has it's own standards now, is a hack then so are blacklists which don't work very well and which is why users of the major providers get a lot more spam than I do (not just greylisting being the reason). The ability to download entire blacklists can be a paid for service and also would be more wasteful. Advertising an MX and refusing delivery is a hack that was never intended too, when email was designed on expensive wholly trusted networks? I guess you don't mind the asshole call centres with noone on the other end and then hang up or make you say hello again to see if someone answers before switching to an employee as they rate the time of the call centre employees doing a job under horrible pressure as more valuable than the recipient? It works both ways, it would obviously be better if spammers did not exist.
