Re: how well C/R works in real life

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From: Jim Berwick
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:45

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Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in news:yU2se.4981$jX6.471
@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net:

> Then Titankey must be an MTA. A bounce can only come from an MTA.

Titankey is an MTA.  It is designed to be the MX handler for a domain and 
pass mail onto the existing mail infrastructure.
 
> And that is a very bad design. Why send two auto-responses when
> one will do? 

Their idea behind it is that rejecting mail with a 550 User Not found 
(not sending a bounce, but simply rejecting the email.  There is a 
difference) and following it up with a C/R will remove people from spam 
lists.  Software sees the 550 error and removes the address.

I don't agree with it, but then again the company I work for sends an 
email to a customer every time we block a virus infected message, which I 
also don't agree with.

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Subject: Re: how well C/R works in real life
From: Jim Berwick <jimb@snip.net>
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