On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Michael Bryner <[email protected]> wrote:
So it sounds like people are saying there is no way to get rid of these > annoying emails, and it says in the emails not to respond, because nothing > will happen. If there is nothing we can do, then that is stupid, because it > is spamming us for something we can't do anything about. Its just as bad as > regular spam. People are chewed out for spamming, then Google does it with > these emails. That is so contradicting. > Oh yes you can do something about it. Don't send emails to people whose email accounts either don't exist anymore, or are behind systems that periodically get shut off. That's why you get those messages. It has been standard practice on the Internet for decades, to notify the sender when their email message can't be delivered. There is probably an Internet standard (RFC) that says so. Compare it to what happens when you send a letter to someone through postal mail, and it can't be delivered. It comes back to you, marked "Undeliverable". Would you call it spam from the Post Office because it comes back to you? And there's nothing you can do about that either. (Well, if you had a really friendly relationship with your mail carrier, you could order him to destroy undeliverable letters, and he just might do it; but in the USA I believe they are required to return them to you regardless.) Me, I would rather receive a 'bounce' or 'delayed' message, than hide my head in the sand and pretend that my message got through when it didn't. The real question here is, Why are you receiving so many of these emails? Indeed, why are you receiving any at all? They are presumably in response to messages you sent, so blame yourself first. Regards, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
