[AktiviX-discuss] dying under the spam

[scott]

ana wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Alan Dawson wrote:
>> ive just put in place some further antispam and greylisting[1] features on the
>> list box.
> 
> This is something I really didn't want to happen... anyway let's see now 
> how many people can't email aktivix addresses because their servers don't 
> deal well with greylisting...

isn't this what is done for indymedia? the spam control there is a lot better and,
i think, this is a good direction to go. i'm not a mail expert tho...

>> I think ana posted some advice earlier.  I can remember if she mentioned not
>> advertising lists on the machine ? 
> 
> Yes I mentioned it as a possible yet quite useless measure against spam :) 
> Our not-advertised email list was pretty much dying under the spam too, 
> although, admittedly, not at all now that you've installed greylisting. 
> But I do fear an increase in false positives. Let's see how it goes...
> 
>> [1]http://packages.debian.org/etch/greylistd

and i didn't read this link.

	--scott