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From: robert@timetraveller.org (Robert Brockway)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:38:28 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1709211034341.3189@sirius.opentrend.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709210957040.89458@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
>> I do some additional tricks like requring the sending MTA to hold the 
>> connection open for (IIRC) 10 seconds before I will accept traffic. This 
>> drives up spammers costs (and everyone elses :( ) but definitely helps.
>
> Err, it's not the spammer who's paying for it these days...
>
> Or are you talking about greet pause, and not tarpitting?  Either way, both 
> are effective.

I'm doing greet pause.  Just checked, it's currently set to 15s.

Rob


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20 16:25 Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 16:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 19:59   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 21:26     ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 23:17     ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  0:00       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  0:08         ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  0:55           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  1:52             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  4:14               ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  5:30                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:43                   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21  0:38         ` Robert Brockway [this message]
2017-09-21  1:30         ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-09-21  1:57           ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  3:04             ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  5:20               ` Grant Taylor
     [not found]       ` <20170921042528.E12C5156E523@mail.bitblocks.com>
2017-09-21  4:45         ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  4:58           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  5:34             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:49               ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 16:46 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 17:01   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:39   ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 22:54   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-20 16:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-20 17:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:14   ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 18:15   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 23:45     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20 22:54   ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 23:31     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:57     ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21  0:02       ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21  1:08     ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 12:36       ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 17:47 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 17:54 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-09-20 17:57 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 18:22   ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:11     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 19:25     ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 19:54       ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:09   ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:26   ` Michael Parson
2017-09-20 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 18:51 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-09-20 20:13 ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-20 22:25   ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 12:40 ` Ben Greenfield
2017-09-23  9:12 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-21 20:05 Norman Wilson
2017-09-21 21:02 ` Grant Taylor

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