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Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please



On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:09 +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, and I really hope this 
> would never be used as a default rule for email filtering.
> 
> I'd prefer to see some tools like dspam/bogofilter/... used instead of 
> the heavy and not efficient enought SA.

There's no reason why we can't have different settings for different
accounts based on what people prefer, whether this includes blacklists,
greylisting or various combinations of spam filters.

Cheers,

Pasc



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