Hmm.,…

Let me ask all my 1500 clients to send one email address per day only!!

That should keep me in business, right??

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Mohit Godiya
President, Computerisms
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

From: mailop <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Brown via mailop
Sent: February 20, 2026 8:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Anyone from Outlook? S3150 block list mirage

On 2026-02-20 17:01, Michael Wise via mailop wrote:
It’s throttling.
Slow down your deliveries.

S3150 is what you get when you don't slow down after seeing 4xx. 😊

(I've just now (well, reading all the recent messages) seen Michael has a 
Microsoft email address).

Assuming this information is100% accurate, how exactly is this advice supposed 
to be acted upon in a practical manner?

The advice to slow down delivery seems only appropriate to a bulk email sender, 
especially for companies who send out hundreds of thousands or millions of 
emails for a campaign. A campaigner's job is to get those queued mails 
delivered as fast as possible and their systems are going to be tailed for this 
specific job, so they *might* actually be watching for 4xx messages to tune 
their delivery rate.

For *everybody else on the planet*, this is an unreasonable expectation.

Slow down? This isn't a fixed-size delivery, this is a bucket that never 
empties.

In our case the email we are sending out is *transactional*; signups, password 
resets, activity notifications. We're fielding daily complaints from people 
trying to sign up for for sites that we host and not receiving confirmation 
emails.

The frustration I experience myself and see in others is no doubt borne out of 
Microsoft's unwillingness to engage or act in a way that is, from an outside 
view, sensible and reasonable. We're also left holding the bag when people 
complain, because if Microsoft blocks our IPs its obviously our fault, right?

I refuse to accept that, nor should others.

Michael

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Michael Brown

Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.

https://www.discourse.org/
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