Re: [exim] Heads up?

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Autor: John Palmer
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Heads up?
> "John Palmer" <nanog@???> said, in message
> 006401c52fb9$1b090b80$5919d797@JPALMERWINXP:
>
> > No, my MTA is *ATTEMPTING* to send 500 challenges a day, 90-95% of which
> > NEVER leave my system because the return address on the spam is bogus!

It
> > never goes anywhere - GOT THAT? I said this all ready and for people

who
> > seem to know e-mail systems, you don't seem to bright on that topic.
>
> Sorry I missed that. However...
>
> Of your remaining 5-10% that actually get out of your machine, what
> percentage subsequently respond to the challenge?
>
> By your own admission, you're managing to deliver between 25 and 50
> challenges per day. Unless you're acquiring a similar number of
> new addresses onto your whitelist every day (in which case, you're
> more friendly and sociable than you sound), you're inconveniencing
> a fairly large number of innocent bystanders.
>
> Alun.
>


See my recent e-mail: "5-10%" just means "almost 100% are rejected".
How many reply? One per month, on the average (my inbox anyways).