on Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:10:06PM -0800, Jeff Chan wrote:
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.
That's because greylisting means one thing - the use of 4xx delays to short-circuit spambots and ratware.
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/
I use "offwhitelist" for "tainted" hosts/domains; it suggests both the whitelist aspect and the fact of it's lack of shiny pure whiteness.