On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:26 +0000, Dan Boresjo wrote:
Quite the opposite: provided that using or not using HEAD does not affect the
ultimate chances of acceptance, there is no reason for spammers to avoid it.
Indeed since their messages are more likely to be rejected, spammers would
benefit from the bandwidth savings just as much as their victims.
This might be true, I suppose.
Unfortunately there is no benefit for legit senders - they do not expect a
significant proportion of their messages to be rejected!
But OTOH they do want it to be the norm... you only have to get the MTA
authors to make it the default to advertise and use this feature.
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dwmw2