[NTLUG:Discuss] the breaking point of spam

Neil Aggarwal neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Tue Jul 25 20:53:28 CDT 2006


Brian:

I agree.  Greylisting is depending on laziness of the
spammers.  Once the spammers see that all they have to
do is to use an MTA with resend ability, greylisting will
have zero effect.

	Neil 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:Discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Koontz
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:04 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] the breaking point of spam
> 
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:10:25PM -0500, Chris Albertson wrote:
> > Greylisting works really really well for me. (At least, 
> until spammers 
> > figure this one out too...)
> 
> Greylisting + SpamAssassin is a great combination that will most
> likely increase your current rate of spam detection. 
> 
> I've found that spammers are getting savvy to greylisting, though.  I
> see several spams a day that are retried and then caught by SA.
> 
>   --Brian
> 
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