[AktiviX-discuss] dying under the spam

[mp]

max* wrote:
> Hi All
> 
>> Greylisting is a technique where when a mailserver temporarily rejects
>> email from new senders.  The senders mailserver will queue the mail and
>> retry later. At this point its accepted.
> 
> Since the delay only happens once, and not every time, is there a good reason 
> why this shouldn't be used on the aktivix personal email too? 
> 
> The only time I can imagine this to be a potential problem is when you're 
> expecting that "urgent email" from someone - and in that case 90% of the time 
> it's from someone who you've already had correspondence with (ie so no 
> delay). Add to that the humongous decrease in spam (and time taken to 
> manually filter that...)
> 
> What do others think? 

I agree, although I am not sure that I fully understand the underlying
technical issues. But if it is based on the concept that all mail
follows anyway, i.e., resending until accepted, then I cannot see how
there should be any problems.

Can someone explain what ana means when she expressed her reservations
about "servers that don't handle it well", since this, seemingly to me,
points to an extra-ordinary mechanism and not just the normal
procedures?????

-mp