At 12:58 PM -0500 4/23/99, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> If I'd had a VERP facility
> available, that would have solved the problem. What I had to do instead,
> sheesh.)
You know what I do? I try to research bounces, and if I find I can't
resolve them, I throw them out. I have a procmail script that
pre-filters my bounce mail, and if it finds incoming bounces that
have addresses that match a list of addresses I've already checked,
it /dev/nulls them.
I figure if a site isn't willing to give me good information to fix
the bounces, it can just live with the overhead of the bounces until
I get around to doing an address probe. When I do an address probe
with encoded messages, I clean out all of the bounces that finds,
zero out me "can't find" address list and start over.
So that stuff doesn't waste my time or energy. I never see it once I
decide I can't find it. And that seems like a lot less hassle than
anything that'd cause someone like David to go "sheesh" over -- after
all, if those sites don't want to be cooperative, I don't see any
need to go out of my way to fix the bounces. If they wanted them
fixed, they'd make it possible. I'll spend my time taking care of the
bounces from sites that DO, in fact, make it possible to fix, and not
worry about the rest.
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