[AUUG-Talk]: ACA says that Anti-spam laws are working...

Ben Elliston bje at air.net.au
Mon Jul 26 09:21:15 EST 2004


> If you run your own mail server I would strongly suggest having a look a 
> greylisting - OpenBSD's spamd (http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/) does a 
> fantastic job of it! Greylisting will not be effective with your redirected 
> email addresses, however it will be with your catchall address.

Won't greylisting be circumvented once the spammers think it's posing a 
big enough problem?  Won't they start running their own MTAs and 
pipeline the message delivery, only adding ~15 minutes to the overall 
time it takes to spam a few million recipients?

Ben
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