Thus spake Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 5/25/2006 9:54 AM:
> Generally speaking, the recommended solution is to automatically
> reject such messages -- which informs the sender, and allows them to
> take appropriate action.
In the old days, this was certainly true, but today, when 70-80% of all
emails on the internet are spam, you may easily find that rejecting all
those messages will (a) eat up a lot of your internet bandwidth, and (b)
exacerbate the problem by telling the "sender" of the message -- which will,
90% of the time, be a forged address -- that "their" mail was rejected.
I have a handful of lists set to "reject," but most are set to discard. In
my opinion, the poster should be subscribed to the list and set to receive
mail; otherwise they should have no expectation that their message was
distributed.
peter
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Peter C.S. Adams
Director of Information and Communication Technologies
College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one;
enemy to none." -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
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