At 12:07 AM 2002-10-26 +0200, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
If it were a privately composed piece of mail that you sent to someone, you might well want to know whether or not it actually got through. It is right to return a bounce. The real issue is whether it is right to bounce mailing list mail.On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nick Simicich wrote: > At the very least, AOL's message is wrong, it should be something on > the order of "composed by" as opposed to "from". They have no other > place to send the bounce, it would never be correct for them to send > it to Mr. xxxxxxx who gets mail at yahoo.Then why send filter-bounces at all? Why can't the filtering or user-initiated blocking happen quietly?
I suggest that it is not 100% possible to determine that the mail was sent by a mailing list vs. a individual who has forwarded it to you using certain MUA's "bounce" protocols.
The more I consider this, the more I feel that it is not right for AOL to filter this mail at all based on the fact that the user instructed AOL to block mail from an individual, but then mail came from a mailing list was blocked instead. I think that this is a bug and someone who cares and who has an AOL account should report this.
If you are bouncing based on the content of a header, that is one thing. But that is not what was suggested. If you are bouncing because the mail came from "X" then you have done the wrong thing.
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