On 21/12/11 10:11, Dennis Carr wrote:
> In all seriousness, I guess it depends on who you ask. For the original
> poster's case, it's going to a "noreply" address, and I've seen cases
> where nore...@foo.bar is simply eaten, more often than not, rather than
> rejected. Besides, as far as I'm concerned, it does serve as an extra
> use: messages to noreply or similar black hole addresses can serve as a
> receptacle for flames. Some yutz can decide he's going to e a jerk and
> flame somebody that doesn't actually exist - s/he feels good about
> {him,her}self in theory,
...which is exactly why you should never drop email like that. You are
advocating for tricking a sender into thinking that his email was
received when it was not. The number of times of your scenario is going
to be far outweighed by the number of emails that contain important
information. Even in your case it is likely that the ranting sender
wants to be removed from your mailing list and to make him think you've
received this email but not removed him from the list turns you into a
spammer.
There is very rarely a good reason to drop email.
Peter
