On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 08:35, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> One of the most promising sounding Anti-SPAM and Anti-virus measures I've
> heard of recently (can't remember where from though) is Greylisting -
>
> http://greylisting.org/
Going from memory, we have a Majordomo-based mailing list on a windows
machine for the museum email list, using whatever Microsoft's email
server software is called these days. It wouldn't cope with resending to
people using greylisting, and so messages from the mailing list never
got delivered.
> I haven't implemented it myself yet.. I'm currently using several
> blacklisting services on the mail server,
I occasionally hit problems because I run a local mailserver at home,
pulling mail down from a couple of yahoo accounts. My IP address changes
once every 6 months or so, but it is still technically a dynamic
address, which means very occasionally I find I can't send mail to
someone because their ISP barfs at my IP address.
Of course the reason I set up a local mailserver in the first place was
because the amount of spam would fill up yahoo mail quotas if mail
wasn't checked / downloaded at something less than an 8 hour limit.
As Sellam says, the only cure is a change in the law. I don't think
there is a way of fixing the technology to work because there are simply
too many different combinations of platforms and software out there.
What works for one setup might be totally incompatible with another.
(I was grumbling yesterday because of the music industry complaining
about pirate music downloads, whilst the big online music vendors all
seem to assume that you have an ipod or access to windows media player -
I hope the spam issue doesn't go the same way, with a half-assed
solution that just excludes a lot of people)
cheers
Jules
Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 05:51:50 BST