On 13/12/04 11:07 -0500, Michael Kaplan wrote:
"The problem with the bounces does not involve the small number of
bounces sent in response to emails from legitimate senders who are not
on the white list and who used a deactivated sub-address. The real
problem will be with the bounces that are sent in response to the hoard
of spam that is being sent using a deactivated sub-address (or with no
sub-address at all).
All emails that would have generated bounces are first sent through a
weak spam filter (meaning one that will almost never generate a false
positive). Let's say that this weak filter identifies 95% of these
emails as unambiguously being spam. Bounces are now generated only to
the remaining 5% of emails. Now this system can only increase a network's
traffic up to 5%. This small increase in traffic should be quite
tolerable. We have also dramatically decreased the number of innocent
http://nixcartel.org/~devdas/minute.png
5% you say? Note that you require all that mail to be accepted in the
first place.
Devdas Bhagat
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