[OT] great anti-spam tool

Martin Baxter mb.userev at harbourhosting.co.uk
Tue Sep 18 12:58:22 EDT 2007


Richard Gaskin wrote:
> My web host just added Greylist to the options for fighting spam.  I had 
> been getting literally tens of thousands of spams a day, increasing at 
> the rate of about 30% every month.  After turning on the greylist the 
> spam count dropped overnight to a small trickle.
> 
> It's an ingenious technique - check it out:
> http://greylisting.org
> 

Yes, I second that. My host has been greylisting for over a year and 
when it was implemented, spam immediately dropped to, and is still, less 
than twenty a day, which is just about right. If I don't get any at all 
I start to worry that my mailhost is out of order. ;-)

Martin Baxter



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