Re: new anti-spam measure heads up

[Kathleen Brosemer <kbrosemer@fgo.ca>]

I'm in favour of almost any measure to reduce this scourge.  Thank you!

Kathie

--On Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:50 AM -0400 Dan Brosemer 
<odin@svartalfheim.net> wrote:

> Enter greylisting.
>
> We now reject all mail from any host the first time we see mail from that
> host with a temporary failure and keep track of where it came from.  A
> real mail server will retry in 30min to 2hrs.  A spam drone or an email
> worm won't.  When we see the retry, we accept the mail.
>
> This means you may see a short delay in legitimate mail from each new
> person you correspond with the first time they send you a message.
> Subsequent messages will be passed immediately.
>
> This has stopped 30 spams in the last 4 hours without any training.
> Nothing else I've implemented to date has been so effective!
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> "Burnished gallows set with red
>  Caress the fevered, empty mind
>  Of man who hangs bloodied and blind
>  To reach for wisdom, not for bread."  -- Deoridhe Grimsdaughter



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Kathleen M. Brosemer
Provincial Coordinator
Forest Genetics Ontario
510 Queen Street East, Suite 24
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
P6A 2A1
705-942-4907
cell 705-255-2801
email kbrosemer@fgo.ca
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