>
> Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming
> > to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user
> > being
> > fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY
> > EXISTED. About 1 ever 3/4 of a second. So running them through ANYTHING is
> > counter productive since , atleast in my eyes, if you try to email an email
> > address that never existed... ITS SPAM. Its not things the user ever
> > sees/knows,
> > etc. I have in my sendmail virtusertable:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bingo
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bango
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bongo
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] irving
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] nobody
> >
> > The user doesn't even SEE the emails, and processing what they consider
> > spam I really don't care about. But getting 120K emails to *@ that are
> > absolutely
> > known spam... I would like to help the community out by reporting them to
> > every
> > system possible. Yea, if the added benefit is the mail that bingo, bango,
> > bongo
> > and irving gets filtered a little better... I won't complain at all.
> >
> > Tuc
> >
>
> Just because mail goes to invalid addresses does not mean it is spam.
> people do mistype addresses some time. so this "corpus" is not safe.
>
Yes, I realize people mistype email addresses. But the domain gets
121,000 emails on an average day.
Of those 121,000 emails a day, 120,000 are to email addresses that
aren't of the 4 known/valid/acceptable ones. What percentage would you like
to use of emails that are sent are mistyped. One out of 1000? That means
121 invalid email addresses a day? But the other 999 of 1000 aren't valid...
Of the other 1000 that ARE to the 4 known/valid/acceptable email
addresses, about 900 of them are marked by SA as a spam level over 5.
Usually WILDLY over 5, like 20's and 30's.
Of those 100 delivered, 75 of them are rejected by the spam
filter (Using a method that violates the standard RFC's according to
sendmail) of the "final destination" for all 4 of those email boxes (Yes,
bingo, bango, bongo, irving actually all end up forwarded to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Of the 25 that make it through, the user tells me 15 of them are
usually spam.
So, 10 VALID/ACCEPTABLE emails a day out of 121,000 emails received
a day .. Or 8 THOUSANDS OF A SINGLE PERCENT.
So, while I definitely don't think people can type bingo, bango,
bongo, irving correctly 100% of the time, with a valid email ratio of 8
thousands of a percent, I don't think in the grand scheme of things
that mistyped email addresses really account for much/any.
Tuc
