> >How does this foul spamming programs? Does it prevent a spammer from >sending out a lot of email or just delay the receiving of it?
It doesn't delay per se, it rejects the incoming mail with a "try again later" tag. The theory is that spambots which act as their own mailers will not retry. I'm not sure how much spam it really stops, but it does make hash of the expectation that mail is received immediately. IMO this is a really bad strategy for two additional reasons. First, it takes something that is intended as a fallback/recovery procedure (ie; retrying) and makes it part of the protocol, which just gums up the works for everyone. Second, if it were even marginally sucessful, spambots would simply evolve to keep track of retry requests. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
