On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Brian K. West wrote:
> Philip,
> Yes I did flame him really really bad.. :) I was just wondering if it
> was bad to accept mail like this then bounce it, or verify recipient.
It is entirely up to you which you do. Either is acceptable. Many people
prefer to verify recipient, because it reduces the number of failed
bounce messages in the age of spam with forged senders. I find this
sad, because it prevents you from providing a service to send back a
helpful message about unknown local parts. We had such a service, giving
hints on common mis-typings and referring to our web page, and gradually
over the years the domains for which it is active have been cut back and
cut back, as more and more spam comes with forged senders. It pisses me
off, because the spammers are preventing me from running a service I
want to provide to legitimate senders.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
