Say "greylisting" to any serious MX admin, and he knows you're talking about an anti-abuse tactic.
Of course they will know you're talking about an anti-spam tactic.
So greylisting _IS_ anti-spam/abuse term. You flip-flop worse than shrub.
No flip-flop. It isn't a real spam term (it is *used* as a spam term, but since it has so many definitions, it can't be used as a spam term). However, because of the nature of the word ("blacklist" and "whitelist" are two of the most common spam terms; "greylist" therefore obviously sounds like a spam term), many people will realize that it is an anti-spam tactic.
Greylisting is a widely used term in anti-spam discussions. It also has several definitions, whether you approve of them or not.
Ah, Len -- you're just repeating what I said. Yes, it is commonly (ab)used, and has several meanings.
Here's the one implemented by postgrey for postfix (simplified):
It's neat that you can inject stuff about your IMGate into the thread
It's a definition of greylisting by one greylist implementation. Are you now also deciding which greylist definitions are acceptable to your dictionary and which posts are on/off topic in your eternally $$self-interested style?
Nobody was asking what your definition of greylist is. The original post was someone acting as though there was just one definition; I responded that there are many definitions (so his post was useless without more information). You then said what your definition was, so that you could talk about IMGate.
You're probably self-interested in countering my input from my very successful IMGate greylisting experience since I don't think Declude does anything you would call greylisting, right?
Not quite -- Declude JunkMail does several different things that people refer to as greylisting (but cannot, of course, do the 4xx responses, due to the IMail architecture).
There is a clear problem with the thread (the original poster wasn't able to get his point across), and we are waiting for the original poster to respond with details on what he means.
It will boil down to what what his definition of greylisting is, no matter whether you accept his definition or not.
Yes, you are very observant. :) That's exactly what I was saying. I was saying that there are many definitions, and he needs to clarify which he is referring to. If he doesn't clarify, we can't know what he is talking about or even help him (not even you can figure out what he means by greylist without more information <G>).
-Scott
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