Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-31 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not against grey-listing but one should think carefully when deploying it. I have threaded some of my comments below, I have also deleted some of the previous message. Harish Pillay wrote: snip Actually, intuitively, it seems to be putting a

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-27 Thread François TOURDE
Le 13874ième jour après Epoch, GWMobile écrivait: Email should be instanteous and if the specs haven't been updated to call for that then the specs are outdated. ??? Why eMail *should* be instantaneous? I don't stay on groups with email delays because it is impossible to have a

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-27 Thread Harish Pillay
[we are getting way off topic here] On Dec 27, 2007 9:02 PM, GWMobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly disagree with you here. Email should be instanteous and if the specs haven't been updated to call for that then the specs are outdated. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html section

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-26 Thread GWMobile
After reading about the greylist which apparently bounces everyones email for a while, I would suggest no unless you are going to whitelist all current subscribers and make it only greylist new emailers. On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:41 am, Michael Shiloh wrote: Thanks Harish, I'll forward your

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas Szukala
Harish Pillay wrote: May I make a suggestion to whoever is running this mailing list to add the greylist technique to it as well? I have had milter-greylist running on my main email servers for over 12 months now, and the amount of spam reaching my users/mailing lists has gone down to almost

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-26 Thread Harish Pillay
After reading about the greylist which apparently bounces everyones email for a while, I would suggest no unless you are going to whitelist all current subscribers and make it only greylist new emailers. Yes, that is true. What I have done on the servers I run - which serves a userbase of

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-26 Thread Harish Pillay
May I make a suggestion to whoever is running this mailing list to add the greylist technique to it as well? I have had milter-greylist running on my main email servers for over 12 months now, and the amount of spam reaching my users/mailing lists has gone down to almost zero. I know

Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
As most of you will surely guess, that email about magazine subscriptions was spam. We take your privacy very seriously and will take the necessary steps to prevent this poster from using our list again. Again, our apologies. Michael Shiloh ___

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-25 Thread James Olney
thanks Michael i got excited when i saw the subject only one more weeks thought maybe something special was happening, but no. i was a little dubious about the pluralisation of 'week' though. happy Christmas! On 25/12/2007, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As most of you will surely

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-25 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:09:52 +0100, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As most of you will surely guess, that email about magazine subscriptions was spam. We take your privacy very seriously and will take the necessary steps to prevent this poster from using our list again. Well,

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-25 Thread Harish Pillay
May I make a suggestion to whoever is running this mailing list to add the greylist technique to it as well? I have had milter-greylist running on my main email servers for over 12 months now, and the amount of spam reaching my users/mailing lists has gone down to almost zero. Thanks.

Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Thanks Harish, I'll forward your suggestion to our IT person. Regards, Michael Harish Pillay wrote: May I make a suggestion to whoever is running this mailing list to add the greylist technique to it as well? I have had milter-greylist running on my main email servers for over 12 months now,