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RE: OT - massive newsletter

From: Randal, Phil <prandal(at)herefordshire.gov.uk>
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 11:14:25 EDT

Kris Deugau wrote:
> Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

>> * Randal, Phil :
>>> 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

Received on Wed Sep 19 11:15:38 2007

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