Chris Santerre wrote:
But if you rely on email for time sensitive info.... you best rethink what you are doing :)
Text messages don't provide authentication, validation nor archival. E-mail can provide both.
I agree that people should be more patient, but when e-mail works as well as it does - with all the benefits - I'm not surprised that they use it as they do.
I'd like to note for the record that we tried greylisting on a major ISP's e-mail system. It did work *very* well in stopping quick spam. However, when we had to abandon it due to complaints about mail delay, the amount of spam which reached the mailbox DID NOT CHANGE AT ALL.
In short, everything that greylisting stopped was also caught by spamassassin.
Since the net effect of not using greylisting is 0, and the net effect of using greylisting is delayed mail ... you do the math.
-- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance
