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Re: [milter-greylist] lightgreylist.org

2007-10-25 by Dan Mahoney, System Admin

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, manu@... wrote:

> Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@...> wrote:
>
>> Greylisting.org suggests something called "peer to peer whitelisting" --
>> which seems odd to me because, well, why should I install support for
>> another protocol if it's inbuilt to (and possible with) the DNSBL
>> protocol, on a nearly universal level?
>
> I guess the goal is to address a possible DDoS attack of DNSRBL by
> spammers.

Sure, because spammers will DDOS a whitelist, so then everyone's mail is 
as delayed as theirs is?

-Dan

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