OT: GreetPause delay

[William Burns]

Kevin Miller wrote:

>William Burns wrote:
>
>
>>Kevin:
>>
>>I get what you're saying about this only affecting your-own inbound
>>mail, but it's useful to extrapolate.
>>If every mail server on the planet behaves like yours, then all of
>>*my* servers outbound mail is delayed for 10 seconds.
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, but by that time the spammers will have caught on, and we decommission
>this and use some other trick.  Which will last for about 2 months, and the
>cycle repeats.  Sigh...
>
>

W/ the straight GreetPause strategy, you're right.
On the other hand, a greylist strategy gives you similar advantages to
GreetPause, but could make permanent inroads against SPAM.

-Bill

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