On 17May2007 17:18, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:09:36PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: | > You're probably aware of greylisting already. | indeed. | > The reason I bring it up is that it's a spam fighting technique that | > doesn't make suspected spam disappear, but disallows delivery. So a | > false positive means someone gets a bounce, which alerts them to the | > problem. | | Which is highly annoying for people who legitimately want to send you | mail, but aren't already whitelisted. I personally hate it, and | refuse to subject people I know to such irritation.
I think you're confusing greylisting with confirm-delivery. Greylisting happens in the mail system, and sends unrecognised SMTP contacts away with a retry later (450 response?) the first time and any time in the next short interval (eg 5 minutes). A real mail system will come back later na dbe let in. Your cheapo SMTP spew-the-net will simply fail and not return. Personally I publish my real address. I use spam filters but also autofile all "personal" email not from a known address in my UNKNOWN folder, which I peruse about once a day. Genuine messages get their addrs added to "known". Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ I die. Where they bury me the ground caves in. It swallows up the city and all die. O the embarrassment. - Joe Haldeman, _A !Tangled Web_
