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Re: Address Assignment Question


From: "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 20 Jun 2011 18:20:18 -0400

Hi.  I'm the guy who wrote the CEAS paper on greylisting.

URL ?

They don't have Google where you are, huh?
http://www.ceas.cc/papers-2005/120.pdf

You're right, greylisting on a large system may not be efficient as it
won't block everything and will eat-up quite a lot of system
ressources. But it's a good start once basic protocol-checks have
already eliminated the 80% amount of bullshit sent from botnets.

Most of us use DNSBLs like the CBL or Spamhaus XBL to catch the botnet mail. It's a lot easier to let them tune their protocol quirk checker than to do it myself.

R's,
John

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