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Lloyd Lim  <Lloyd_Lim@mail.limunltd.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I have a custom domain at a2i and I have nojunk turned
> off and I specifically asked for no blocking to occur to my
> domain.  I post news occasionally and I have web pages, which
> means my email address has been harvested and is harvested on a
> regular basis.  (I can tell when.)

> Despite this, I only average about 10 junk emails per day at a .com
> address.  And as postmaster, I get all the misaddressed junk email too.

Right.  

My theory is that the incoming email system at rahul.net is sort
of limping along, due to some sort of misconfiguration or
resource problem that Rahul hasn't yet been able to identify.  As
we know, incoming email lags ranging up to several hours are not
uncommon.  So with RSS blocking off, the added load causes the
system to deteriorate significantly, to the point where it
doesn't always function; thus leading to the conclusion that RSS is
necessary to reliably run this particular email system.  But it
isn't necessary in general; other people run other email systems
without it -- under different conditions of course -- and those
systems work just fine.

That's why this RSS business is so frustrating.  Email systems
are very tricky to run, and involve a lot of subtleties, and
a2i has "tuned" this one to run under certain conditions, including
RSS being there.  You change those conditions, and kablooie.  
So at this stage, a2i has bought into using RSS and changing that
would be costly/impossible.

Steve