On Wednesday 08 December 2004 15:00, Russell Coker wrote: > I agree that we don't want to be nice to spammers. But there is also > the issue of being nice in the case of false-positives.
I think, that a permanent error is the best response for a false-positive. The sender will then receive a bounce message and he will know that his communication has not been received by the other party. He can then make another plan - like sending a fax or changing ISP. If you give a temporary error, it will depend on the rules in the mail server one-hop before the one generating the false positive on when the sender will get a bounce or a warning - this could take hours or even days. The server where the mail gets queued is likely to be an outgoing relay server for a large ISP. The sender would have no access to such a server and little opportunity to talk to the persons responsible for managing it so he would have a tricky job establishing what happened to the mail. Support staff's nightmare: "I sent an e-mail but it just never arrived ...(long story about how important that particular message was)..." "Did you get a bounce or an error message?" "No, the mail just vanished - what are you going to do to fix your servers!" Regards Ian -- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P. O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
