"Alan J. Flavell" <a.flavell@???> wrote:
>
>Considering that there are some miscreants out there who try to weed
>out their spamming lists by this means, I'm not sure that I'd want to
>co-operate in that way: I'd rather tell them that they are blacklisted
>(whether by local blacklists or RBLs) than assist them in their
>trawling expeditions by handing out information on the (non-)existence
>of particular local parts.
It's a very bad idea to accept email for invalid addresses, because then
you have to generate a bounce which will probably go to an innocent
third party. Spammers do not bother weeding out their address lists,
since doing so is about as much effort as a spam run and it doesn't
bring in money like a spam run does.
Tony.
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