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

[Dan Hollis]

nice strawman, but any mailserver worth its beans will let individual 
customers disable greylisting.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Res wrote:

> 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 :)
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Res
>
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