Anti spam solutions

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:17, Robert Brockway wrote:

> > I've looked for a free honeypot/rbl package but haven't found one.  I
> > figure something like that plus a dynamic soft bounce (4xx retry) for new
>
> How would that be an advantage, given that the remote MTA will just try
> again later?

Ralph is talking about greylisting I believe. It is supposed to be very 
effective since many spammers, and viruses, do not actually retry their 
emails.  There's a whitepaper at http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/

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