Re: Greylisting (Was Re: [Hampshire] Spam increase?)

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: Alan Pope, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: Greylisting (Was Re: [Hampshire] Spam increase?)

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:11:51AM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:37:35AM +0100, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:
> > A good commercial choice. IMHO the Yahoo Hotmail Gmail stuff is not that
> > serious.
>
> You can't possibly make that decision on behalf of another user of your mail
> system who depends on that mail arriving in a timely fashion.
>
> Indeed greylisting was implemented on the lug.org.uk box last year and the
> users went (IMO unnecessarily) completely bonkers over it. We had people
> (users [LUGMasters and LUG members]) throwing their pram toys olympic
> distances as a result.


It should be pointed out that when the issues were raised, the
greylisting was removed. It was later put back in, with opt-outs for
those groups that definitely didn't want it, and with a considerably
less restrictive set of rules on what to accept on retry.

Hugo.

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