Re: [Hampshire] Spam increase?

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Spam increase?

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:40:19PM +0100, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:
>
> On Wed, April 25, 2007 3:06 pm, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Steve Kirk wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:44:53AM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> >> I've found greylisting to very effective for my home domains too. I
> >> don't use
> >> any other form of spam filtering, except for a few attempted (and
> >> probably now
> >> well out of date) entries in my sendmail.cf
> >
> > Just bear in mind it is not a panacea and has some quite serious
> > downsides.
> >
>
> What are these serious downsides?


It takes a while for mail to get to you.

People sending mail from systems that use server farms (Yahoo!,
GMail) may not even get mail through to you at all, as the mail comes
from lots of different IPs, each of which needs to pass the
greylisting process...

Those are the two I'm aware of.

Hugo.

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