Avoiding Spam & Greylisting
The main email address at one of my web sites receives about 3,000 pieces of spam per day. This has quadrupled in the past year, and most of it in 2008. Managing this, and finding the real email is wasting lots of my time. I am looking for solutions.
This week I am researching an email anti-spam technique that is certainly geeky, and is not for everyone, but may be the solution I am seeking: it is called greylisting. It was tested in 2003 and described in a white paper entitiled, The Next Step in the Spam Control War: Greylisting, by Evan Harris.
I am grateful to Gary Jones of BlueFur.com Web Hosting for suggesting this solution in this thread at the TAZZU Vancouver Business & Technology Community forum.
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