On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:11:03AM +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 11:15 pm, Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> > as a virus ourselves. Much better solution is to not accept it, i.e bounce
> > with 4xx code - see change above.
> 4xx is a temp_fail which just causes an ISP store the job in the queue and keep 
> resending it,
> so you should continue to use the 5xx code.

Disadvantages:
- more resources used
advantages:
- spam/virus source will have easier job with realizing that they have a
  problem
- messages will wait and can be accepted later

I am convinced that for RBL filters advantages are bigger than disadvantages.
It may be different with viruses (I only recently started to believe they
really exist) but I wanted to experiment.

R.
-- 
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Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs/Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux!


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