New list confirmation (Re: cpunks list relocation imminent (was: Re: moving on))

Tom tom at vondein.org
Fri Sep 2 08:33:33 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 08:08:39AM -0700, Razer wrote:
> I just took a look at the Wikipedia entry for 'greylisting'. It sounds
> awful if you're victimized by it. My personal mail from openmailbox to a
> friend was rejected by yahoo b/c of shit like that and I didn't get a
> notifcation for three fucking days.

Obviously you've never operated an email server. 99% of all emails
arriving on any bigger public mail server is spam. Of course you do
everything to minimize spam.

Since most spam comes from bot nets which do not implement queueing as
required by the RFCs, they are successfully blocked from delivering
their spam with greylisting.

Of course this method blocks mails coming from mailservers whose
operators are stupid morons and do not properly configure queueing.

So, if you're blocked because someone uses greylisting, don't blame
them, but your mail server admin. Or stop using it and look for some
service which respects the standards. Or do it yourself.

However - a cypherpunks member whining about email problems? Really?



- Tom



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