Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

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Συντάκτης: Chris Lightfoot
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Προς: Ian Eiloart
Υ/ο: exim-users, Dave Lugo
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:54:32AM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
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>
> --On 8 December 2006 20:26:53 +0000 Chris Lightfoot <chris@???>
> wrote:
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> > Things
> >would be a lot simpler if you people would just install
> >spam filters and stop whinging.
>
> Marc (like many of us) spends his life building spam filters. Spammers
> spend their lives working round them. It's tedious, which is why people are
> looking for more principled solutions.


sure. But ``black lists'', SPF and other IP-address-based
things aren't relevant to this; they can't be used (on
their own) to filter, because to do that you have to
inspect the content of the messages. It is
misunderstanding this that leads to the kind of trouble
Marc describes.

> "Stop whinging" is a whinge, too.


of course!

-- 
Two economists are walking along the street. The first says, ``Look, there's
a £50 note on the pavement!'' The second replies, ``Don't be silly. If there
were, somebody would already have picked it up.''      (ancient economics joke)