unfortunately, the emails are actually entered by the user as it is to their benefit to receive what we are sending them ( a receipt) - so despite users entering their own emails, it get s bounced - but it's not just AOL, there are many small services and companies that this happens with as well
On Sunday, February 17, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Len Conrad wrote: > >> Hi - Really getting frustrated with all the returned "unknown users" - >> someone suggested that it could be a result of anti-spamming filters - >> I have never used one of those, does anyone have an idea of how they >> work? > > I admin a list server that sends 50K msgs to AOL daily. > > We get very few bounces for unknown users, like 0 on most days. I > assume the ones we do get are really non-existent accounts. > > So, from my experience, if AOL bounces a msg as unknown user, the I > would assume that's true. > > Len > > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail > gateways > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be > removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Thanks - md Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
