+++ Jon Kyme [exim-users] <11/12/01 12:48 +0000>:
> The 'specification' for the [laughs] system was produced by the client and
> a firm of 'web designers' [spits] and required that copies of the
> newsletter
Hi
I'm not blaming you exactly - but you _are_ walking into a minefield with
every time you mail out to that list.
> I could take the moral high-ground and say that since a fraction of a % of
> of the list doesn't validate then the list is itself BAD and throw some
> kind of hissy-fit. I'm not sufficiently bothered by the situation to make
> myself look like that kind of f*ckwit.
Good god man, you _could_ do a little bounce processing at least? Removing
the obviously useless addresses (and maybe implementing a little sanity
checking on that list to weed out stuff like "AS ABOVE"), and then removing
addresses that consistently return a 550 ...
> It's a Real-World-Problem (tm). Welcome to it.
It _is_ a real world problem which can be solved. Not instantly, but with
time, and effort on your part.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
