On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:11 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > With GreetPause I am already causing a small delay which works very > well for those spammers/bots which are in violation of the standards. > However, I have carefully singled out all major email MX outbound > hosts for 0 greet pause. But greet pause is an SMTP delay waiting not > a rejection as gray listsing does. Graylisting leaves the mail delay > in the hands of the other end - I prefer the control in my hands. A concern that I have is: Do you have more than one / enough SMTP server processes? If you get hit with a scad of spam, each one pausing the transaction, do you DoS yourself? (Denial of Service.) > I want email coming through fast - when I'm on the phone with > someone and they say i just sent you the xxx .. i dont want to wait > for it. I agree. It's highly annoying to conduct business with someone, and while you're chatting with them on the phone, waiting and waiting, and waiting, for that e-mail they sent /some/ time ago, the goodwill dries up. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
