Greetpause seems very ineffective (Was: RE: Increased Volumes Of Spam)

[Res]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Alex Neuman wrote:

> In my particular case I've had to turn off greylisting for a few servers 
> because the owners would rather throw more resources at the problem (cpu, 
> ram, etc.) to check mail after it's received. Most people I know get used to 
> the additional delay after a while, but there are some users who are more... 
> let's call it "recalcitrant".
>


The problem with your annoyance at your paying customers who dont 
want greylisting comment here is, business emails are time 
critical, it is unacceptable to delay email destined for lawyers, real 
estates, accountants and every other company where time is crucial, like 
those vying for multi-million dollar contracts.


Picture this:

its 9.10am a QC is due in high court at 10am

most hosting mail servers are very busy so its retry queue is set hourly 
to avoid problems wih normal mail

QC tells the barrister he needs that info NOW "email it to me"
barrister sends email 15 seconds later.

At 9.10 your grey laming said "i dunno if your a lamer or not try again 
later"

9.40 QC must leave for court, its still not there.

10.00 its retried and accepted, ..tuff luck the QC is right now before the 
full bench of the high court about to see his client slammed away fo 30 
years because of a lame mail server that delayed the crucial evidence.


OR what about the building sub contractor who just lost out on a 500 
million dollar project to Donald Trump, he's going to think, if 
you cant manage to get and read such a simple effortless thing like an 
email in half an hour do I really want to deal with you.

I dunno  maybe you people dont have time crucial customers :)

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Cheers
Res

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