I should also note that my own message below that I quoted is hypocritical
on my part. If the mail was IETF mail or other important email, I would
have a different opinion. Of course, It was hypocritical of me to say that
mail to others is any less important to its senders and recipients. I
should not have encouraged this type of behavior. It shows that I too can
be disgusted with things, and encourage an inappropriate response to
stupid behavior. It is certainly something that one should try to avoid
in oneself, and criticize in others.
--Dean
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> >
> > Verizon is trying to do a "sender verification test". This is a dumb
> > idea whose time didn't come. But no matter.
> >
> > Here is a message from Randy Bush on the subject. I frequently disagree
> > with Randy, but in this case, I think he has the right idea.
> >
> > --Dean
> >
> >
> > =================
> >
> > > I think he's saying that they were unable to perform the
> > > validation hence the 450. If the validation was successful,
> > > they'd return a 200 series code, if it was unsuccessful, they
> > > would return a 500 series code.
> >
> > nice words, but crap. due to needs to spool mail for sites in
> > countries with very poor connectivity, mail spool time here is
> > quite long. if verizon and others seem unable to decide in weeks,
> > why should i pay the penalty?
> >
> > but, i guess the problem is easily solved with exim config. i have
> > set it so that if it can not deliver to verizon in say one hour, it
> > dumps the mail.
> >
> > verizon.net * F,1h,5m
> >
> > life is simple, except for verizon users i guess.
> >
> > randy
> >
> >
