On Sa, 27.11.2004, 03:43, Stephen Gran wrote: ... > I guess what I'm trying to say is, I understand your misgivings, beause > people implementing most anything can manage to do it in a really stupid, > painful and harmful way. That doesn't necessarily mean the idea is > unsound. Greylisting is, itself, a one-trick pony. It will lose it's > effectiveness whenever spammers get around to implementing queues on > their zombie clients. OTOH, admin'ing an MTA these days is an arms race, > and a new weapon can be a lot of help.
I disagree here. If only a few of us would use greylisting no spammer would think about implementing queues. But if the majority would use it and they (the spammers) implement queues, it could end in a disaster for them. Or how would you call a queue with millions of messages waiting? And now for the warriors among us: At that point you could play with the time window perhaps using random shifts to at least knock them out. I'm using mimedefang as my 'aircraft-carrier' for such games. ;) You are able to react very fast with that tool if the situation would change! Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]