Re: Adelphia vs greylisting
"Dave Anderson" <[email protected]>
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** Reply to message from Barb Dijker <[email protected]> on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:30:53 -0600 >We had a problem with a cable company that would not retry soon after >the block (5 minutes), but would retry once at 24 hours and then >never again. I don't recall what company it was. So we tried >opening up our retry time to 25 hours. It didn't appreciably >increase spam, so that's where we left it. I hate one-off whitelisting. > >The spec doesn't say how soon one must retry. In some logic, for >some sites, waiting a day may make sense. See RFC 1123 section 5.3.1.1 -- while this cable company's behavior may not violate the strict letter of the law, it certainly violates its spirit. FWIW, Dave -- Dave Anderson <[email protected]>