>>>>> "JF" == Jim Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JF> Surely it would be a trivial thing for them to do. I'm no programmer, JF> but I think I could write a perl script to examine a bounced message You greatly underestimate the difficulty of processing bounces from random remote sources. If everyone used mailers that did DSN's that'd be one story, but you've got to deal with many old bizarre systems that barely know SMTP, let alone how to make a machine-readable bounce report. Why do you think VERP was invented for mailing lists to manage this? Anyhow, I doubt they do any list cleaning since it would make their lists smaller, making them less "marketable". Besides, most spam comes with forged return addresses, clearly indicating that they don't want nor care about the bounces. I also doubt that their proxy-abusing software will even report 5xx errors back, as that would waste time. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
