Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:32, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> >> I am ok with anti-spam measures which enable a well-behaving false
> >> positive sender to know they have run afoul, and in which the
> >> maintainers of the mechanism promise to try and adjust the system so
> >> that the false-positive in question doesn't recur, taking
> >> responsibility for false positives.
> >
> > So the CBL is fine then.
>
> Depending on how it is used, yes. It must be used in a way which is
> something other than just bit-bucketing messages, because then the
> sender can't tell that damage has occurred. One way to handle this is
> to use it only to produce SMTP-level errors.
The standard way of using DNSBLs is to give a SMTP 55x code, so it satisfies
your criteria.
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