* Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-17 18:43]: > It's not uncommon for big sites to have pools of high throughput > machines that don't have qrunners, and larger pools of machines that do. > The first group gets a message, and tries to deliver immediately, and > any temporary failure gets the messages shunted to the secondary pool. > Once in the secondary pool, it can be bounced from machine to machine > to load balance queue size and so on. > > That being said, the original query about this was a strawman argument > designed specifically to find a problem, and I would say fairly > confidently we don't need to worry about this. I have analyzed the logs > on mail servers I have access to, and I cannot find any site which passes > a message between more than a half dozen or at most a dozen IP addresses > before delivery. This is two or three orders of magnitude less than > the kind of thing Thomas and others are concerned about. By the time > sites big enough to use pools that big exist (which I actually doubt - > scalability might just be too hard to manage to be worth it), greylisting > will be another dead tool in the arms race with spammers. > > So far, all the arguments against the idea have just been assertions and > strawmen. Unless someone can present a serious argument, can we > consider this thread done? I've been using greylisting with postgrey and whitelists for some time now (more than a year to be precise) and I still do get mail from gmail, yahoo and msn accounts. And if one is so concerned about them one could contact their postmasters asking for a list of IPs for whitelisting.
After all we are talking about developers @debian.org email addresses not abouts lists.debian.org. yours Martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System * Myon wirft noch ein paar 'f' zum Verteilein in den Channel -!- florolf is now known as fflorolff