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Spam blocking with greylisting

Spam blocking with greylisting

Posted Jun 26, 2003 10:27 UTC (Thu) by sjlyall (subscriber, #4151)
Parent article: Spam blocking with greylisting

One problem with this approach is that in this day and age people expect their email to go through in just a few seconds. I'll often be on the phone and I'll email someone a document and then we'll discuss it a few seconds later, many other people are used to doing similar.

I run a mail system for a medium sized ISP and if there is a problem causing mail delays people quickly notice and either complain or become frustrated. I think that a system where a large percentage of email is delayed for up to an hour will be unacceptable for many people.


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Spam blocking with greylisting

Posted Jun 27, 2003 18:34 UTC (Fri) by ksmathers (guest, #2353) [Link]

IM works better for that kind of collaboration. E-mail can be delayed for a whole variety of reasons.

Spam blocking with greylisting

Posted Jun 28, 2003 2:07 UTC (Sat) by macfisherman (guest, #6018) [Link]

Email is a store and forward technology, not an instant message system.

Spam blocking with greylisting

Posted Jul 3, 2003 20:56 UTC (Thu) by khim (guest, #9252) [Link]

It does not matter. Peoples are using it as IM technology and they will not stop doing so if you'll say it's not - they will just switch ISP...

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