On Oct 20, 13:42, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
} Subject: Re: To: address rejection
> At 03:01 PM 10/20/97 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> >An increasing number of mail servers are taking much needed measures to
> >deal with spam email, and I'm seeing some interesting bounces from the
> >majordomo lists which I administer. One of the more direct and effective
> >measures is for the mail server to look at the To: address in the header
> >body and reject mail for which the To: address is not local. Since
> >Majordomo always puts the list address in the To: header, this mail
> >bounces. Are there any solutions for this in the works?
>
> That's broken beyond belief. In my opinion a site like that doesn't really
> want its users to be on internet mailing lists, and I wouldn't lift a
> finger to support them.
Yeah, it says to me that the site does not want to accept *any* bulk
email, solicited or not.
I wouldn't bother trying to get around restrictions like that. If
that's going to be their site policy, they're going to have to live
without solicited bulk email as well as unsolicited bulk email. They
either realize that and don't want users on mailing lists, or they're
incompetent. In either case, I don't think any mailing list
administrator has any business deliberately trying to bypass their
bulk mail filters.
Legitimate mailing lists should respect site bulk email policies,
I think.
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