Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

[Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> writes:
> 
> >   Email may appear to be realtime, and you may even expect it to
> >  be because this is frequently how it works.  But this is not guaranteed.
> 
> The RFC requires "best effort".  

  Sure.

> >   99% of the time when I wake up I get more mails delivered 
> >  overnight when I'm not around to deal with them in a realtime
> >  fashion than during the day.
> 
> Greylisting can cause email to fail entirely.  

  And *that* is a valid complaint.

  Choosing not to use greylisting because it causes mail to become
 non-realtime is *not* a valid complaint.  Which is the point I was
 trying to make in a roundabout fashion.

Steve
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