Loosing spam fight -> devnull@FreeBSD.org

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2007.01.27 13:04:28 -0200, JoaoBR wrote:
> On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:32, Jim Pingle wrote:
> > Roland Smith wrote:
> > > Most spammers do not bother to return if they get a resend request.
> > > That's the whole point of doing this. So practically it doesn't increase
> > > bandwidth consumption.
> >
> ...
> > Greylisting is a decent idea, but it seems to me that it's just another
> > tool in the ongoing arms race against spammers. It may work for a while,
> > but eventually they'll catch on and it will only cause unnecessary delays
> > for legitimate mail.
> 
> finally some cares about the users here, that is a really important point, how 
> do you justify that your client get the email he is waiting for an hour 
> later? Probably he looks then for a better service provider ...

Could this discussion please be continued on the apropriate list which
is designed for spam - devnull at FreeBSD.org?

Thanks.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen