On 04/22/02, James Cronin <james@unfortu.net> wrote:
As it's still likely to end up with the most popular domains @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, @aol.com having several thousand recipients though I'm still interested in whether anyone has more experience of ensuring that mail doesn't get blackholed.
Spam has reached such epic porportions that it is virtually guranteed that if you send mail out on a regular basis, you will eventually be blackholed somewhere. But if you follow the advice here (as it sounds like you are), most sane folks will still accept your mail.
I'm thinking along the lines of whether and how it's necessary to rate limit sending to those domains, whether they don't like single messages having more than a certain number of RCPT TO lines, whether there are contracts that one can sign to get access to some sort of super special non-public MX for them, etc...
or whether it's just all pot luck ;)
It varies a lot, depending on the provider. However, it'd probably help to remember that a load of mail which might DoS a small provider will almost certainly set off alarms at large providers...and that may get you blocked. -- J.D. Falk "say your peace" -- Scott Nelson <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> (probably a typo, but I like it)