--On Tuesday, September 28, 2004 7:07 pm -0400 "Greg A. Woods"
<woods@???> wrote:
> > [ On Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 11:11:00 (+0100), Ian Eiloart wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: [exim] support for domainkeys
>>
>> One way to encourage people to stop generating the bounces is to make
>> the bounces stick on their own outgoing mail queues.
>
> I'm afraid that doesn't help at all.
>
> In the many months I was under attack earlier this year there was only
> ever one single lone (successful) attempt by any other postmaster to
> contact me and ask me if there was a problem; and despite my sending of
> notification of bogus bounces to many hundreds of postmasters the best I
> ever got back was sympathy for the borked nature of their software and
> the inability of their vendor to make even the most basic recipient
> verification available.
So, given a choice between accepting and rejecting bogus bounces, what do
you do?
> The people who are lame enough to use such broken software in the first
> place are either too ignorant to figure out what's wrong or else too
> lazy to do anything about it.
Interesting, because I get quite good results when contacting postmasters
about accepting messages from null senders. I guess that's more critical
though.
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Ian Eiloart
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Sussex University ITS
