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Subject: Re: Should iname.com be blacklisted? / VERP power
From: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:07:21 -0400
To: "David W. Tamkin" <dattier @ Mcs . Net>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199904231759.MAA21852@Jupiter.mcs.net>
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At 12:58 PM 4/23/99 -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>Good.  Bigfoot manages to send a bounce that says which Bigfoot username
>pointed to the undeliverable downstream address by including a "for" phrase
>in the Received: headers even when the item was blind-carboned to more than
>one Bigfoot address (at least in my tests).  Surely iName can do something
>similar.

This is a really bad idea, unless this is produced as part of a bigfoot
internal expansion after they are internally directing the mail to only one
recipient.  Is that more or less what you are saying?  Can one bigfoot
customer see that another bigfoot customer was BCC'd?
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