On 12/21/2011 5:30 PM, Peter wrote: > On 22/12/11 04:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> or discarded. > There is nothing more frustrating than trying to figure out why your > emails are not going through to your customers than when they are > accepted for delivery and *not* delivered. I have very little patience > for anyone who insists on doing this. That's because you're confusing discarding spam with discarding legit mail. Maybe your spam filters or your own special A/S sauce simply suck? >> The world is shades of grey Peter, not black and white. SMTP RFCs even >> have grey areas Peter. I believe they are worded as "may" instead of >> "should". > > Yes, and the world is full of email admins who don't know what they're > doing, what was your point again? The LKML list manager, and many others across the globe, treat 5xx rejections of their list mail as bounces, and unsub members after a given threshold, 3 IIRC in the case of LKML lists (of which there are many dozen, 4 which I sub). I was told I must simply eat the spam along with the rest, or not participate. Yes, this is a stupid draconian policy, but I must live by their rules, or not participate. Thus, I DISCARD most of the spam from such lists instead of eating it, then manually deleting it, or sorting it to a spam folder and then deleting it as you apparently do. Why do all the extra work when a DISCARD does it for me with zero fuss? This is why I said the world is shades of grey Peter. In some circumstances DISCARD simply works, and is a better option than anything else, including the swallow/regurgitate/spit routine that you preach here. -- Stan
