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Re: [Asrg] Lets Fix Mailing Lists

2003-03-09 23:56:05
At 2:48 PM -0500 3/9/03, Alan DeKok wrote:
There is *no* way that any legitimate
business would be sending that much mail to addresses which don't
exist, and *never* clean out bounces.

That much, no. But certainly some don't bother cleaning things out. Here are a sampling of the addresses that were still sending to a former dotcom two years after the domain had been turned off.

Return-Path: 
<unh(_dot_)connection-owner(_at_)rccweb(_dot_)sr(_dot_)unh(_dot_)edu>
From: Schwab Alerts <SchwabAlerts(_dot_)MyPortfolio(_at_)Schwab(_dot_)com>
Return-Path: <afterthebell-html-return-423-emallen=netcentric(_dot_)com(_at_)marketwatchmail(_dot_)com>
Return-Path: <TechTarget-23EC2830965A818B(_at_)lists(_dot_)techtarget(_dot_)com>
Return-Path: <nlsystem(_at_)maillist(_dot_)newsfactor(_dot_)com>
Return-Path: <offers(_at_)rate(_dot_)quicken(_dot_)com>
From: Adobe Systems Incorporated 
<Adobe-112161-5806(_at_)adobe(_dot_)mx0(_dot_)net>

--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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