At 5:21 PM -0500 3/27/03, M Wild wrote:
validate the From: address rather than the To: I am contemplating clueing
my MTA's in to actual valid users in the domain so that I can reject mail
that I know I won't be able to deliver. The thought here is to reduce the
bounce messages to likely invalid free email accounts. If the list members
have any thoughts on why this would be a Bad Plan(tm) I am open to hearing
them. My first thougth on it is that my MTA will assist the spammers in
It is usually preferable to bounce messages at the SMTP prompt rather
than later. Most MTAs do know what accounts are valid. Bouncing
later makes things worse for everyone.
Um...I don't know. I never ceased to be amazed by the number of customers
that we have that are using sub 200MHz Pentium boxes using IE 3.02/Microsoft
Mail as their client software. Some folks just don't have the patience for
a 25MB download.
There's a 25MB download to upgrade the speed of your Pentium?! :-)
Seriously, if they are running 200Mhz Pentium boxes, the odds that
that 25MB upgrade is going to run at any reasonable speed on their
box is pretty slim.
--
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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