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Re: draft-atkins-smtp-traffic-control

2011-11-01 16:26:46

(1) The difference between "not able to accept any mail right
now" and "trying to manage traffic" (or greylist, or...) really
may justify a different reply code set.

Call me grumpy, but I'm having trouble understanding why I would want
to help people who underprovision their mail systems push the extra
work off on me.

Yes, I know that Yahoo's mail system is chronically overloaded and
sheds load all the time.  This is a business decision, not a law of
nature.

R's,
John