At 10:46 AM -0400 4/24/02, Stefan Jeglinski imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >>The higher-class spammers who think of themselves as legitimate >>e-mail service agencies (Exactis/Experian, Flonetworks/DoubleClick, >>Mindshare, Responsys, MessageMedia, etc.) try to do correct bounce >>handling and will recognize anything that looks like a real bounce >>even if it comes from a transaction past their involvement. > >Really? I've had a variety of Flonetworks sources either routed to >error or blacklisted for perhaps almost a year now - and they keep >coming, day in day out. > >Or should I distinguish between 'correct bounce handling' and >'removing an e-mail address from the rolls'?
Maybe. Flonetworks is an edge case, at the bottom of the barrel in behavior just above the folks who don't delude themselves about whether they are spammers. However, the best that can really be done by any mailer-for-hire is to remove bounced addresses from a single list. From what I've seen, Flonetworks has a major problem with customer retention and so may not often mail the same list twice, but when they do, they probably manage to wash their lists of addresses that actually bounce with standard 'unknown user' response codes. I can't be absolutely certain of that because I have not examined their behavior specifically in quite a while, but that would match with how many other 'mainsleaze' mailers operate. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
