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[Alec Bogus Email]

Thanks for the help guys. Greylisting is definitly something i've been
looking at (for years actually), but i've been too lazy to implement.
But now, my lameness is gonna be kicking my ass with more and more spam so
that's a bad for a good, i guess...

Alec

Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> Daniel Gerzo <danger at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
>> Actually, there is almost nothing you can do about it. I would
>> recommed you to install and properly configure spam filters and
>> maybe to implement graylisting if you have problems with spam.
>
> In my book, greylisting is not a maybe if you want a sane mail
> environment.  Unfortunately there's a lot of uninformed comment
> floating around, the fact is that the few wrinkles that need to be
> worked around (large outgoing server farms, incompetently run mail
> services) are easy to work around, and it ends up saving you time and
> power.
>
> - P
> --
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
>