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On 10 Mar 00, at 19:01, Claus Färber wrote:
> Well, it depends: If you end up accepting too much mail to invalid
> addresses, checking in advance is cheaper than sending out many
> bounces.
Exactly. Now did you do measurements? :-) What did you find? In
my case, the percentage of mails to invalid addresses is way under
0.01%.
> If you only receive a few messages with bogous destinations,
> validating the address for all mails has probably a higher cost.
My point.
> It also depends on the speed of the machine and the bandwith its
> connection to the Internet has.
Speed of the discs, mostly. Yes, I agree. There are too many
factors to be reckoned with. However, I still tend to stand by my
point - even if I'm behind a line where I (um, my employer) pay per
megabyte. :-)
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