>I have a hosting customer who sent out about 1000 emails using my server
>yesterday.  He did this by piling everyone into his BCC field.

dumb

>These
>are all opt-ins, otherwise I wouldn't have let him use my server to do
>it (he asked first, after his regular ISP limited all email to 10
>recipients each msg after an ownership chg).  A boatload of AOL and MSN
>users came back on him.

overloaded bcc: fields are technically unreliable at best (many MTA's 
truncate headers at 1024 chars or whatever, and are signals to weighting 
programs and heuristics that the mail is highly suspect.

Do him an imail list, or have him cut up his 1000 into MUCH smaller pieces 
for bcc:.

Leave it to him as an exercise to figure out how small the MUCH smaller is.

Len




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