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Re: Tom's PONG problem.

2002-11-20 22:16:16
TMDA.  Taged Message Delivery Agent does exactly what you want.

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 08:39 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
     > 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.


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