Re: more raving about greylisting

On 10/29, Chris Ross wrote:
>   Looking at this again, I wonder.  Do you have any thoughts as to  
> why the spike has such a gradual up-slope?  I would think if you just  
> refused to accept email from spammers, a la greylisting, it would be  
> more distinct than that.

Yes, based on this experience and discussion with a friend with a similar
experience it is very clear to me that spammers record who refuses to
accept mail from them.

The gradual increase was a result of the amount of time they each took to
retry me after I disabled greylisting.

And the fact that it was still very much going up when I re-enabled
greylisting indicates to me that there was much more spam to come.  

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