[Greylist-users] Adelphia vs greylisting
Dave Anderson
dave at daveanderson.com
Sun Sep 25 11:02:23 PDT 2005
** Reply to message from Barb Dijker <barb at netrack.net> on Sun, 25 Sep
2005 10:30:53 -0600
>We had a problem with a cable company that would not retry soon after
>the block (5 minutes), but would retry once at 24 hours and then
>never again. I don't recall what company it was. So we tried
>opening up our retry time to 25 hours. It didn't appreciably
>increase spam, so that's where we left it. I hate one-off whitelisting.
>
>The spec doesn't say how soon one must retry. In some logic, for
>some sites, waiting a day may make sense.
See RFC 1123 section 5.3.1.1 -- while this cable company's behavior may
not violate the strict letter of the law, it certainly violates its
spirit.
FWIW,
Dave
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Dave Anderson
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