From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-08-29T06:40:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway comp.lang.ruby -> ruby-talk

On 28 Aug 2005, at 10:17, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Shugo Maeda wrote:
>
>
>> Oh, I'm sorry. Postgrey was stopped on Thu Aug 25 for the other  
>> reason.
>> I hope there is no problem now. I'll configure the whitelist before
>> restarting postgrey.
>>
>
> I wonder how many months this postgrey thing will stay effective.  
> Isn't it
> easy for spammers to get around it? I bet most spam tools of 2006 will
> include the feature of trying every address twice with a delay of N
> minutes in between tries...

Postgrey has auto-whitelisting where well-behaved hosts will no  
longer experience a delay.  After a month or so the delay could be  
increased.

I use greylisting as a cheap way of allowing less mail to reach a  
more CPU intensive spam checker.

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