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Subject: Re: Automated bounce recognition
From: Russ Allbery <rra @ stanford . edu>
Organization: The Eyrie
Date: 21 Oct 2001 00:34:59 -0700
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: "Ronald F. Guilmette"'s message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:42:51 -0700"
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Ronald F Guilmette <rfg@monkeys.com> writes:

> If you try to differentiate mail message into two piles, just based on
> whtehre the envelope sender was null or not, then in one pile... the
> null envelope sender pile... you will have a lot of bounce messages, but
> also a fair amount of spam, and also quite a few auto-responses from
> badly implemented autoresponders.

And all replies from one particularly piece of list management software
whose authors have their own very... idiosyncratic interpretations of the
mail RFCs.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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