On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:26:39PM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
Since most of what MAPS is about is reducing complaints from customers to their ISP, and thereby reducing support costs, I guess the question is answered. If no one complains, there is no problem. Since no one can complain about unseen messages, that means that collateral damage is not really a problem, since it does not increase support costs.
Hi, Bob? This is Susan. I haven't received a reply from you regarding the email I sent yesterday, did you get it? You didn't? Hmmm. Let me try resending it.
Hi Bob? This is Susan again. Did you get that second email yet? No?! Maybe you should call your ISP to find out why! Yes, I already called mine, they don't have any info, they say the mail server logs show that both the messages were delivered to your ISP.
Hi, Mr. ISP support guy? This is Bob. It seems that I'm not getting all of my email....
You're assuming that the filterer is silently discarding the message and not bouncing it. If a site is blocked from sending mail via MAPS or any other method, the receiver must send a bounce message to the sender to avoid breaking SMTP. Assuming the filterer is not breaking SMTP by silently discarding messages, Bob will receive a message saying that his message couldn't be delivered, with an explanation. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> | GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA http://flounder.net/publickey.html | 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A