[nzlug] (OT) Sorbs etc, was Exim: Limiting outgoing connections on Debian

[Shane]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 09:09, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 07:18, Shane wrote:
> > And I have in this mornings mailbox an example of the trouble some types
> > of grey listing will cause.  A spammer has been using my "domain" as his
> > for posting spam.
> > ie khgurh at weasel.is-a-geek.net
> > Someone has dropped me a mail this morning <auto-generated>, asking me to
> > confirm I am that person, adding to *my* spam load
> > Spammer 2  Greylister 0 Innocent Party  (me) -1
>
> That's not greylisting. That's ...  I dunno what it's called ... 'confirm
> or you don't get your email through'. I don't like that system, it requires
> human intervention, and hurts people who get joe-jobbed. Greylisting on the
> other hand is completely done by the mail servers and only the servers. No
> humans harmed in the making of this fil...sending of this email.


grr, right you are, can I claim asleep at the wheel?