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Re: Branden's mail policies



On Sunday June 19 2005 2:31 am, Simon Huggins wrote:

> You can see on your "blacklist backlash" that JaNET, the UK's
> academic network is listed as respecting the DUL.  Blacklisting via
> the DUL is a positive measure when coupled with virus scanning
> smarthosts as it reduces the number of virus mails spread by
> clients like Outlook.

Y'all do realize that greylisting takes care of those about 9 out of 
10 times, and the overhead to do virus scanning is minimal on what 
does keep retrying long enough to get greylisted, right?  DULs are 
considered stupid, you might as well just deny mail from 0.0.0.0/0.

-- 
Paul Johnson
Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca
http://ursine.ca/~baloo/

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