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Re: greylisting on debian.org?



On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:
> > That's better than not greylisting anyone. Nobody is trying to
> > design the perfect spam filter. We just want to reduce spam on
> > debian.org.
> 
> A perfect spam filter is one which catches all spam and bounces no
> valid mail.  Saying "we aren't trying to be perfect" is ambiguous
> about which imperfections you are willing to tolerate.
> 
> I would like you to be explicit and clear about which valid mail you
> will be bouncing, rather than vague and inspecific.

It was pretty clear for anyone actually reading the messages.  The error is
in the "safe side", i.e. let stuff through the graylisting without delaying
it.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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