[geeks] Greylisting?

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Tue Nov 22 12:51:36 CST 2005


>> As the administrator of a mail server you should be minimising the
>> negative impact on the Internet of your service.  Greylisting
>> increases it.
> The old "be conservative with what you send, liberal with what you
> accept" policy.

This was a nice policy for the net of the era it came from.  It is not
generally appropriate for today's net.  (There still are niches where
it applies.)

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