Re: [exim] 5 Minute Penalty Box

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Fretwell" <mattf@???>
>
> Not trying to pee on your bonfire :), but have you thought of just
> blocklisting a sender|client who has hit a certain reject amount within a
> specified period, and putting a contact address in the rbl reply? Then
> whitelist the rbl contact address for everyone except certain permanently
> blocked, (and staying that way), clients|senders|helo's. That way, they
> get an address, (and message to that effect), that they *CAN* contact if
> the block is a mistake.
>
> It would appear you are trying to make too much work for yourself with
> this one:)
>
>
> Matt

I respectfully disagree. Would not the continuing work involved to correct
"mistaken blocks" be rather more labor-intensive than the one-time effort
put forth to create these self-correcting penalty boxes? I think Marc is
onto something here. Clean, simple, self-correcting, utterly imperfect, but
pretty darn good. And no continuing maintenance work. :) Gotta love that
part! That's what computer programming is FOR, imho. Get the computer to
do stuff repeatedly, so I don't have to! *grins*

Jim Roberts
Punster Productions, Inc.