On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:45:12PM -0800, Tim Howe wrote: > I can't figure out if I like this idea or not... I think I would try > this for my own mail server, but not a server with thousands of > customers on it. I think it is probably best as a private solution.
More and more, actaully, I think the things we consider private solutions will need public deployment. I mean, speakeasy for example refuses to accept any message from a host until it has verified that the host not an open relay, and then continues to check now and then. Sure wish they'd make daily snapshots of their relay list available. I was reminded that the more widespread thing comparable to SAUCE is TMDA. I don't mind an initial mail delay if I don't have to, eg, prove I'm not a spammer within 24 hours or other silliness. This more automated solution is only a few steps from my own suggested replacement for SMTP which works on the spam filtering principle of modern IM clients. That is, your message doesn't get through until I decide to allow it. Of course, my solution is impractical because it involves replacing SMTP which is quite entrenched. When I concluded more than a year ago that it was the only effective solution, I saw another flaw: it would almost require a seperate machine just to manage the database of who ma send mail. I believe Larry mentioned last week that efn now has four machines devoted to spamassasin. Suddenly a server to manage a database not dissimilar to the one used by this greylisting technique becomes a reasonable alternative. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
