Re: [exim] Greylisting - using Exim new features - ratelimit…

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: Phil (Medway Hosting), Exim Users List
Subject: Re: [exim] Greylisting - using Exim new features - ratelimit withnoupdate


--On 9 July 2007 20:31:01 +0100 "Phil (Medway Hosting)"
<phil@???> wrote:

> My point
> being that if this method became the norm, then it would not be long
> before spammers wrote their software to work properly.


Which is a valid critique of *any* anti-spam measure. It's an arms race
we're in, and if there's a measure that buys us a few months dominance,
then it's worth implementing. Perhaps it'll even have the side effect of
causing other MTA authors to fix buggy products, which would be no bad
thing.

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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148