Re: [Exim] Greylisting + multiple MX hosts -> multiple attem…

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Author: Bruce Richardson
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Greylisting + multiple MX hosts -> multiple attempts
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:01:43PM -0500, chris@??? wrote:
> I would like to see that. But the whole point here is that spamware
> doesn't make the effort that legitimate systems make to send a
> message. It's the same reason why telemarketers don't try a number
> four or five times just to make sure that the number actually is a bad
> number. If the number fails once, it is removed from the system.


Not the same. Telemarketers are paying human beings to do the calling.
Having an mta retry an e-mail address is a trivial expense, in
comparison.


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Bruce

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