From: Robin Lynn Frank (rlfrankparadigm-omega.com)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 09:29:03 CST

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Greg A. Woods wrote:
| [ On Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 00:53:17 (+0100), Lionel Bouton wrote: ]
|
|>Subject: Re: Blocking mail from=<>
|>
|>Thanks for all of us poor stupid souls coding various greylisting policy
|>services...
|
|
| You're wasting other people's time to solve a problem that you have many
| other better alternatives to solve.
|
| Either accept the mail when it's offered in as efficient a manner as
| possible (and then either deliver it as addressed or quarantine it); or
| reject it outright right away.
|
| Anything else, especially what has been inappropriately called
| "greylisting", is an unnecessary abuse of the SMTP protocol and is a
| continual ongoing waste of everyone's time and resources.
|
Greg,

You're a fine one to talk about wasting anything. I seem to recall that
an email I once sent you, consisting of a single sentence under 10 words
was rejected with reject text 108 words in length.

Current conditions render any presumption of innocence, when it comes to
incoming email, invalid. Accept and quarantine is a huge waste of
resources. Without some other alternative like greylisting, people will
be left with no alternative to ever stricter rules which will give rise
to ever increasing false positives until the chance of getting email
delivered is nil.

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