[103700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Apr 11 01:10:58 2008
To: frnkblk@iname.com
Cc: "'Mike Lewinski'" <mike@rockynet.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:48:52 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:07:09 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:48:52 CDT, Frank Bulk said:
>
> Q> Does Yahoo! use "greylisting" to reject messages?
>
> A> No.
> The most commonly understood form of "greylisting" is where an
> SMTP server will reject every message the first time it is
> attempted, and then accept it if the sending server retries
> later. The theory is that spammers won't retry messages, while
> legitimate senders will.
>
> Yahoo! does not utilize this method.
"Spamming^WGreylisting is that which we do not do..."
(And the word^Wword above caused my spell checker to (quite rightly) flag it,
but I have *no* idea why 'Creosoting' was the suggested replacement. Though
the idea *does* sound tempting...)
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