Nov. 8, 2010
1:51 p.m.
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:25:37 +0000 (UTC), Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote:
* Manuel Schneider wrote:
But greylisting is widely used and efficient.
Greylisting is a crude hack to move local problems to the common internet out there. It's one of the most prominent anti-social developments.
This is slightly OT, but out of personal interest, can you elaborate on this ? I thought spam and spambots were a prominent anti-social behaviour ? How is it anti-social to ask to pospone a SMTP connection for a short while in order to distinguish a real MTA from an infected computer with a SMTP proxy ? Patrick