On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Edgar Lovecraft wrote:
> I thought the entire idea for greylisting is that 'spamers do not retry',
Not only...
> so why do the Greylisting Docs suggest such a long period of time before
> the accept??
RTFM - See
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ under the
subheading "Basic Configuration Parameters", where it says "The
initial delay of 1 hour was picked for several reasons:".
You might or might not agree with those reasons, but they seem at
least plausible to me. I'm not criticising what Aber are doing - just
taking a look to see if the resulting (small but unnecessary) network
overheads could be reduced.
cheers
