It's a niche business, but there are several entrants in it. We run a couple of very popular websites with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a month. For various reasons, they enter email addresses both on the webpage and via incoming email.
Validating e-mail addresses is important because of velocity concerns with folks like AOL, Hotmail, and MSN. If you have "X" number of invalid email addresses in a certain period of time, they slow down your connection speed. When "X" reaches a certain level, they drop your connection for some period of time. Of course, you and I both know this is for spam reasons, and I completely support it. But when you've gotten your addresses from a valid source, then you need a way to pre-validate the addresses. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: QUE overload Wow! I've never heard of such a thing. I'd have suggested that he tell his user to maintain his list better by purging bad recipients. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: QUE overload We use Validate Pro by Oceanwerks Software. It comes as a standalone program that can read a list of addresses and as a COM object. Obviously, nothing is perfect. This helps quite a bit though. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul Natola Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: QUE overload Are there any script/utilities/programs to accomplish his with? And more importantly , can an end-user do it? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 4:24 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: QUE overload Validate your e-mail addresses before sending the message. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul Natola Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 12:08 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: QUE overload Hi all , We recently started sending out a newsletter And naturally, there are a whole bunch (about 400 and counting) undeliverable/invalid addresses etc... I saw the server was slowing down and noticed a ton of messages in the queue, Is there anything I can do about this? (besides cleaning up the distribution lists) Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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