Spam From Dharma Research

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by flesso

Grey listing sounds like it could get pretty annoying. I mean, would you want to send a long email with multiple attachments twice?

You have got a point - that is why it is only gathering speed slowly as people are reluctant to do as you explained - I have to admit I would find it annoying therefore I am not going to implement it on any of my website hostings (at least for the moment).

Yes it means I have to deal with more spam at the moment which takes a little more time but at least I get all the vital emails that I need to be able to recieve!

[flesso]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

You have got a point - that is why it is only gathering speed slowly as people are reluctant to do as you explained - I have to admit I would find it annoying therefore I am not going to implement it on any of my website hostings (at least for the moment).

Yes it means I have to deal with more spam at the moment which takes a little more time but at least I get all the vital emails that I need to be able to recieve!

I may ditch the Outlook client as the amount of spam that I'm recieving is starting to slow down my computer when Outlook downloads it all.

Regarding the grey listing, it will be interesting to see if any large/international companies or any which require alot of communication via email take it up.

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by flesso

I may ditch the Outlook client as the amount of spam that I'm recieving is starting to slow down my computer when Outlook downloads it all.

Regarding the grey listing, it will be interesting to see if any large/international companies or any which require alot of communication via email take it up.

I use Thunderbird which seems to deal with it quite well in my experience - it seems to cope a lot more than Outlook ever could. The only reason I don't use webmail now to access the emails for my website hostings is because I can't access all the emails from all the accounts without individually logging into them all which would be far to time consuming when in an email client you give it all the information and press send and recieve all and it grabs all your mail and I have set up filters to filter each email addresses mail into different folders and a spam folder for everything spam assasin has marked spam which seems to work quite effectively at the moment.

I doubt large companies will undertake to implement this at the moment - they won't want to risk losing valuable emails that could be worth thousands of pounds to the company - but you never know. Also companies arn't as eager to update to new practices and software. I know companies that still won't use IE 7, and some that are still on Adobe Reader 6 (rather than the later 7 or 8 versions) as the amount of testing and quality control they put it through (understandably) takes ages to complete and if the newer product does not meet the criteria set out by the company exactly it is not updated. Hence the reason most companies (all that I know of are) are still on XP.

[paul]

Originally Posted by flesso

Grey listing sounds like it could get pretty annoying. I mean, would you want to send a long email with multiple attachments twice?

Yep that could be annoying but with greylisting you should also consider doing some whitelisting it can sort out that problem I think. greylisting.org/whitelisting.shtml

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by paul

Yep that could be annoying but with greylisting you should also consider doing some whitelisting it can sort out that problem I think. greylisting.org/whitelisting.shtml

Yes, whitelisting is extremely useful but strangely enough something that most people don't bother with .