Loosing spam fight

[JoaoBR]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:10, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:58:46AM -0200, JoaoBR wrote:
> > also a point to think about, most complains about spam talk about
> > bandwidth consumption, by asking for resend later you certainly increase
> > bandwidth consumption and resources on both sides
>
> Most spammers do not bother to return if they get a resend request.
> That's the whole point of doing this. So practically it doesn't increase
> bandwidth consumption.

you must see both sides, following your theory, spammers stay away but good 
guys *are* coming back, greylisting is at the end the same only a little bit 
less stupid than this anti-spam-send-and-ask-a-confirmation-mail things

also that spammers don't come back is an illusion, firstable they do it for 
money and secondable if they don't come back from the same source they come 
back from another and either one might be spoofed so you can greylisting 
yourself to death because sooner or later all sources are blacklisted or 
you're rewriting continuously your whitelists and both are probably 
unreliable at the end



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João







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