On 12/23/19 6:24 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
The reason you see various places doing this is because it works for
them. As simple that. They've reached the conclusion that this check
blocks a bunch of crap with negligible, if any at all, impact on their
non-spam mail traffic.
I would not draw that conclusion, at least without additional
information. My conclusion would be that you see such practices
because a site believed that it worked for them at sometime in the
(perhaps distant) past. But something I've seen across many different
organizations is that fixes tend to be seen as necessary indefinitely,
even long after they've outlived their usefulness or caused more
problems than they solved.
Another thing I've often seen is that measurement of the effectiveness
of such measures is poor to nonexistent.
Another thing I've often seen is that "running code", however badly
running, is often taken as the ultimate authority for how things
"should" work, no matter what the rules or policies or business
interests are, because the people who are maintaining such code don't
want to take the risk of disrupting operations. (often because
operations is understaffed)
But perhaps the fundamental problem is that too many people actually
don't consider reliable email delivery as an essential service, and
that's why they justify throwing away messages for dubious reasons.
Keith
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