On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 01:11:20PM -0700, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: > Hehehe... > > No, I meant who are behind these..
https://emailable.com/abuse/ > Is AWS alright with this.. I suppose the answer is yes. Getting any kind of answer to any question out of them is beyond difficult, so this may be simply by implication. > Trouble is how to tell good email validators from bad ones.. > Even, what is a good validator vs a bad one.. The good email validators don't show up on your mail servers. They do stuff on their own, based on DNS and other things that don't require turning into a woodpecker. > And how about transparency? Technically, I don't see the reasoning > why to do this, and if you need to do it, not be transparent about > it.. Yes. I didn't write this https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/722/on-the-dubious-merits-of-email-verification-services and I have nothing to do with the folks who did, but it's hard to disagree with anything in it. > Now, if there was only some method to see if you really have > permission to use an email address.. ;) Interested in buying a bridge in southern NYC? ;-) -- Atro Tossavainen, Chairman of the Board Infinite Mho Oy, Helsinki, Finland tel. +358-44-5000 600, http://www.infinitemho.fi/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
