Kris Deugau wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> * Randal, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> If you don't want to annoy a lot of people your spamming (oops, >>> newsletter sending) software needs to deal with NDRs back from >>> recipient's domains and either put their subscription on hold after >>> a small number of failures or automatically cancel them. >>> >>> There's nothing worse than mailing lists which keep sending to >>> non-existent recipients. >> >> amen to that! > > Thirded. There's a "newsletter" that some of my spamfilter customers > want to get, and others want blacklisted, that doesn't *accept* mail > from the SMTP null sender. Period. I may start bouncing the > postmaster notices *I* get to deal with to their postmaster@ along > with > a complaint > about their RFC-violating behaviour. > > I'd drop them in a deep dark hole (/dev/null feels about > right) if there > weren't customers that actually *want* to receive their glop. :/ > > -kgd
There are a number of high-profile sites which are very badly behaved in this respect. Friends Reunited being one of them. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK