| Stephen Gran on 25 Mar 2004 11:36:02 -0000 |
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:28:56PM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman said: > So Stephen, if you've read me this far: can the obnoxious part be mitigated > or is it hopeless? I think the TMDA challenges fall into the same category of mail as the 'you sent a virus' and 'undeliverable message' crap that keeps coming in for mails I never sent. I get about 10 or 12 of each category/day. Collateral spam, whatever you want to call it. They just all go in the SPAM folder, and I don't read them at this point. It's not worth the effort of sorting out if one a week is actually for a message I did send. It's usually not even that high. I can't think of the last time I got a legitimate bounce back, so the roughly 3000 collateral spams so far this year are just wasted bandwidth, as far as I'm concerned. I know that you have to send bounces for 'undeliverable mail' - anything less is irresponsible, on the off chance it was from a good sender. The rest? I don't see a need. > OBTW: Even if you were a cretin who didn't care about being obnoxious... > how are you going to get your legitimate email from ebay or newegg? Add > them to the whitelist, sure, but they get spoofed a lot. Another problem. I'm not sure how you would work around that one with TMDA. Take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Regression analysis: Mathematical | | steve@lobefin.net | techniques for trying to understand why | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | things are getting worse. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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