Re: [Exim] Delays send to AOL

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta wrote:

> From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
>
>
> > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dave C. wrote:
> >
> > > It is not the postmasters job to fix addresses mistyped by incompetent
> > > boobs. If you want your mail to go through, use the correct address.
> >
> > When I first got involved with Internet mail, about 12 years ago, it was
> > all very flaky and people were experimenting. In those days, everything
> > was much more cooperative, and postmasters DID help each other (and
> > remote users) in that kind of way. There was a sense of community that
> > has since been lost. Nowadays, attitudes have changed, and also the
> > volumes are such that one just can't do this any more.
>
> In 1988, it was quite common to _send_ mail to the postmaster, to ask for
> the address of a user, eg, to postmaster@???, for the address of a
> Faculty Member.
>
> The success rate was high enough that this was the _first_ thing to try,
> before attempting variations on firstname.lastname.

These days, if you dont have someones email address, you probably have
no business emailing them - if they wanted you to email them, they would
have given you their email address, or have it published somewhere
apropriate.


>
> --
> Sanjeev
>
>

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