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. agreed
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