At 4/5/2007 08:38 AM -0700, Thomas Leavitt wrote:

One problem with the "bounce" solution is that <snip/>
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So, I (Cutler) add:

And, even the best-intentioned bounce messages often give lots of data, but no information, thus increasing the noise to signal ratio.  For example, Paul most likely knows what the following means to him.  To me it just means I can't send mail to Paul.

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  paul@vix.com
    SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<paul@vix.com>:
    host sa.vix.com [204.152.187.1]: 553 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [209.86.89.61] blocked using reject-all.vix.com; created / reason

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------


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James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com