The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. -- Douglas Adams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/01/2007 10:18:30 AM: > Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Scott Ragen wrote: > > > >> IMHO its better for a sender to get "Your Mail has been rejected due to > >> suspected spam", then the email getting lost in the spam box never to be > >> seen. > > > > Except that they don't get that message. Instead they get a long, > > cryptic bounce message which _might_ include the the text the receiving > > MTA sends buried somewhere inside it. In my experience users don't read > > beyond the "your message cannot be delivered", even moderately technical > > users. > > > > This is something the MTAs generating the bounce message could be a > > _lot_ better at. > > > > And then people start getting bounced messages for emails they didn't > even send (faked from address) which adds to the spam. IMHO spam should > not be bounced. > Not bounced, rejected. This means the sending mta sends the rejected email back to the user, so it wouldn't get caught in the spam trap[1]. At least if the email is rejected, the user knows that the recipient didn't see it. If its lost in the spam box, then the sender wouldn't know if it was received or not. Cheers, Scott [1] Depending on the email setup. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
