On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:22 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:11 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > With GreetPause I am already causing a small delay which works very > > well for those spammers/bots which are in violation of the standards. > > However, I have carefully singled out all major email MX outbound > > hosts for 0 greet pause. But greet pause is an SMTP delay waiting not > > a rejection as gray listsing does. Graylisting leaves the mail delay > > in the hands of the other end - I prefer the control in my hands. > > A concern that I have is: Do you have more than one / enough SMTP > server processes? If you get hit with a scad of spam, each one pausing > the transaction, do you DoS yourself? (Denial of Service.) ---- greylisting is actually lightweight and will reduce the load ---- > > > I want email coming through fast - when I'm on the phone with > > someone and they say i just sent you the xxx .. i dont want to wait > > for it. > > I agree. It's highly annoying to conduct business with someone, and > while you're chatting with them on the phone, waiting and waiting, and > waiting, for that e-mail they sent /some/ time ago, the goodwill dries > up. ---- yeah but if it's important either... have them send a dummy e-mail, wait 5 minutes and then send the important e-mail or wait 15 minutes. Hardly a big deal. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
