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At 8:39 AM -0700 5/12/00, Tobias Hoellrich wrote:
>I'm simply blown away by the number of bounced/wrong/undelivered emails I
>receive every morning. It looks like close to 50% of all emails get
>returned to us for one or the other reason. Is it really possible that so
>many people don't know their email-address, cannot type, have buggy
>mail-gateways, etc. ?
First of all. Do you make it clear that they won't receive
authorization until they receive the mail? Secondly, do they get any
access at all if they give you a fake email address?
It's not at all surprising to me, but that's because I'm on the
receiving side of a lot of those registration bounces. People very
commonly use fake domain names, and somewhere.com is one of the real
popular ones.
What amazes me is the number of sites that send email to "users" and
don't check for bounces. So over and over I get subscription
notices, advertisements and other junk addressed to (usually)
non-existent email addresses at somewhere.com. I bounce more than
100,000 messages a month.
This is true of even some of the so-called "opt-in" mail services
like yesmail.com. I got around 1000 email messages from them last
week, all addressed to bogus somewhere.com addresses. In their case,
that means they're defrauding their advertisers. But they didn't
respond to my complaints.
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Kee Hinckley - Somewhere Consulting Group - Cyberspace Architects(rm)
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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