On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:55:47PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> It is a somewhat well known fact that if AOL identifies a given piece
> of incoming mail as being probable spam, they'll accept it and then
> just quietly route it to /dev/null with no bounce.
>
> (According to them, they save a lot of bandwidth and processing power
> by simply dev/null'ing spam, rather than trying to bounce it.)
Yup. If we try to bounce a spam, it just generates a double-bounce
to postmaster. Dropping it on the floor saves us a lot of hassle.
Naturally, we don't want to do that unless we're about 100% sure that
it's spam.
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
