On Monday, December 6, 2004, 8:54:09 PM, Joseph Burford wrote: (Paul Schwarz writes:)
Is anyone else recommending or not recommending greylisting and what are your experiences. Seems like surbl should get more effective over the
Greylisting rocks, however I've been building a greylist whitelist to help get over the problem of various people who run non-compliant systems.
So with a good list of trusted netblocks not to greylist, it is even more effective. I've been sharing this with a few people, if you or anyone else is interested please mail me offlist.
OK I think there may be some confusion about the term 'greylisting' here. Greylisting is one of those terms that can mean different things in different contexts. In this case, it looks like:
1. Paul may be referring to putting marginal spams into a separate mail folder or mailbox so that they can be checked manually for spamminess, then delivered or deleted. Perhaps Paul can clarify if that's what he meant.
2. Joseph means using blocklists based on 'grey' criteria, i.e. domains are mentioned in some legitimate mail and also some spams.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."