Re: We need an IETF BCP for GREY LISTING

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:06:16AM -0400,
 Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> But I expect that spambots will start to deal with greylisting very
> soon.  

I here that since I use greylisting (and I started many years ago,
with people saying "it will work only for a few months"). Repeating
this mantra does not make it true.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:59:28PM -0000,
 John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> My logs don't show any recent increase in greylisting.

Same thing for me. This is probably the reason why spammers do not
adapt: few people are using greylisting. 

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