"Jay F. Shachter" <j...@m5.chicago.il.us> writes: > Unrelated to the above -- I sent this message hours ago to the mailing > list, and the SMTP server at mail.netbsd.org sent me back a 450 error > because it was greylisting me, which I only noticed a few minutes ago. > I think it is moronic to greylist people who are on the netbsd-users > mailing list. Is there any empirical reason why this is being done?
Separately from the technical points addressed by martin@, it's rude to call this moronic. Setting aside that it is well understood by anyone who has run a mail system that spam filtering is complicated and challenging, it's unprofessional language.
