Re: [anti-spam-wg] Steve Linford and Spamhaus Internet Terrorists

[Paul Wouters paul@localhost]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Peter Dambier wrote:

> > > Antispamlists do at least as much harm as do the spammers.

arguable.

> I cannot bribe every ISP in the world. So I have to ask my clients to
> run their own mailer. That is what I do too. That is why I am using a
> dynamic ip-address.

It costs 50 euro/month to get a 1u box coloated on static PA space to run
mail for you and all your customers together. If you can't afford that,
you're in the wrong business.

> http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/
>
> Greylisting works without collateral damage.

As long as 0.000001% of people use it. As soon as it becomes more
popular, all it will have achieved is that everyone's email is
delayed by 15mins-1hour, while to spammers just try to hammer
harder (and now also repeatedly!) onto mailservers.

> With greylists you may dely a legal user but you do keep out the spam.

No. you will delay email and keep some spam out temporarilly.

Paul