08-14-2008, 09:55 PM
I rely on quick communications in my business. Mostly, it is not a matter of minutes but sometimes it needs to be that quick nevertheless. And when my ISP's mailer responds with "next try will be made in 4 hours" or some such, I usually have lost the client. My ISP can't do anything about it.
I have been around since before spam and have seen its tides rise and fall and never has it bothered me greatly (some things are even amusingly silly), and I have always been thankful for the measures that have been taken to fight the spam. But the spreading use and misuse of this tool called greylisting is realizing that the general idea it's based on is wrong: Punishing lawful, normal users in the name of fighting spam.
It may be new to the Internet, but it's been around in government for ever and ever and last time I heard, it wasn't called any pretty names.
I have been around since before spam and have seen its tides rise and fall and never has it bothered me greatly (some things are even amusingly silly), and I have always been thankful for the measures that have been taken to fight the spam. But the spreading use and misuse of this tool called greylisting is realizing that the general idea it's based on is wrong: Punishing lawful, normal users in the name of fighting spam.
It may be new to the Internet, but it's been around in government for ever and ever and last time I heard, it wasn't called any pretty names.