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Tom's PONG problem.

2002-11-20 20:43:48
Er... hello everyone.

I'm sorry about the problems I've created on this list (and several others).

My presumed autoresponder was a test to validate email addresses to see if it would even work.

The theory goes like this:
Somebody sends me email and it looks really spammy.
First thing I do is check the email address to see if it is even valid. If not, I toss it. If it is, I send a request for confirmation to their email address because not all of the mail servers out there will respond correctly to the first test. If they reply then I can assume that they are a real person and not some spam-bot.

The Pong's where the result of hosed expression checking.

The other SMTP attempts where I dropped early where the address validation. This process is never intended to send email.

I had to test it against everything I recieved to see if the theory was even valid in the real world. For the most part, it is. But seeing as I only get ~10 spams a day it would take months to see if it would even work a little bit.

I'm trying to do this stuff right and even RTFM, but sometimes things don't work out as planned....


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