<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">PS: "New" doesn't mean new, it means "hasn't written in a while", so my own message got delayed.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">This strategy might have worked a long time ago, when spammers would just connect to the SMTP server of the destination, i.e. mail.osgeo.org. They'd get an error and their script would move on to another target. But if you have a real mail server (or a compromised account, or an open relay which accepts and forwards messages for anyone), it won't help at all.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Laurentiu</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Thu, May 29, 2025, at 20:34, Laurențiu Nicola via gdal-dev wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I think it's at least in part an anti-spam measure. We reject messages from new users and their server will try later. Spammers are less likely to retry delivery of their messages.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I'm personally not a fan of this, but..</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Laurentiu</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>