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Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please



On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:09:47PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Le Jeu 16 Juin 2005 14:33, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> > Now that we have released sarge, I would like to ask debian-admin and
> > the Project Leader to consider seriously doing something to reduce
> > the level of spam we have to receive, store, and filter in our
> > @debian.org addresses.
> >
> > For example, we could use greylisting. Or we could reject messages
> > that are known to come directly from trojanized windows machines
> > acting as open proxies. Or even better, we could do both things.
> 
> I fully disagree, greylisting is really painful,

What's painful about it?

It stops a lot of viruses and spam, with no false positives. What's the
problem?

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