Re: 1. Re: Ordinary user account can't log in; 2. Greylisting

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"Jay F. Shachter" <jay%m5.chicago.il.us@localhost> writes:

> Unrelated to the above -- I sent this message hours ago to the mailing
> list, and the SMTP server at mail.netbsd.org sent me back a 450 error
> because it was greylisting me, which I only noticed a few minutes ago.
> I think it is moronic to greylist people who are on the netbsd-users
> mailing list.  Is there any empirical reason why this is being done?

Separately from the technical points addressed by martin@, it's rude to
call this moronic.  Setting aside that it is well understood by anyone
who has run a mail system that spam filtering is complicated and
challenging, it's unprofessional language.