[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > A host that persistently refuses to run the SMTP protocol on the SMTP
> > port cannot be said to be running SMTP.
>
> So why not fall back to another one that does?
Because you claimed that it was speaking SMTP. Upon examination, it
isn't. Your MX records are false. Why should I send your server any
mail at all, since it may not be the right server at all?
> > Tell them to fix their SMTP servers, don't work around their
> > breakage.
>
> Isn't the design philosophy of the Internet supposed to be one where it is
> desireable to work around breakage?
Nope, because if you do that, people never notice the breakage. If
something is working (even if it takes special efforts to keep it
working, e.g. contacting the wrong host first), they quite reasonably
conclude that it isn't broken, and they don't fix it.
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