> I do not like to see them drop messages anyway. There are ways to
> handle this. Since their system is so sophisticated, they could add
> code to bounce the first 500 and drop the rest of the bounces. On the
> 500th bounce, they could return a message to the postmaster of the
> site to indicate that messages were being lost due to excessive
> bounces. But silently dropping messages is wrong. -Chuck-
Yes. All automatically-generated messages should be
rate-limited, and there needs to be notification when the
rate-limiting kicks in. For each type of message, I think one
should have two limits: a per-recipient-mailbox limit and a
(much higher) per-recipent-domain-limit. This in an important
principle for everyone who implements an email robot, not just
for AOL.
Greetings, Norbert.
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