On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:18:30AM +1100, Phil Scarratt wrote:
> Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> >This one time, at band camp, Scott Ragen wrote:
> >
> >>IMHO its better for a sender to get "Your Mail has been rejected due to
> >>suspected spam", then the email getting lost in the spam box never to be
> >>seen.
> >
> >Except that they don't get that message. Instead they get a long,
> >cryptic bounce message which _might_ include the the text the receiving
> >MTA sends buried somewhere inside it. In my experience users don't read
> >beyond the "your message cannot be delivered", even moderately technical
> >users.
> >
> >This is something the MTAs generating the bounce message could be a
> >_lot_ better at.
> >
>
> And then people start getting bounced messages for emails they didn't
> even send (faked from address) which adds to the spam. IMHO spam should
> not be bounced.
>
It's not just your humble opinion:
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html#bounceexplain
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