On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Kee Hinckley wrote:
I would take this as a *reason* to standardize them. Given that they
are getting even more confusing. The point isn't to standardize them
for humans--but for computers.
Exactly. The system I built, though, is getting ~99.6% accuracy in
auto-processing now, so it can be done with a few hacks. What's left is
mostly places that are going out of their way to try to "help" (Adobe
and LLNL both have very helpful 'they aren't here any more' messages
that are useless for auto-processing) and people building their own
scripts badly, and a couple of systems like First Class (grr) that
still seem to think the entire e-mail universe is a local network
running phonenet or something. First Class is probably half of my
un-automated bounces, but I'm working on figuring out ways to outsmart
their stupid mailer short of unsubscribing entire domains in disgust
(since First Class also tends to bounce stuff to the sender, not the
envelope, and we've talked to Centrinity about it and they don't see
this as a problem, when one of them pops up on our list server sites,
that domain DOES get blacklisted until it gets fixed, preferably with
real server software...)
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