> > Bango said that if his mom can't spell his name right, he doesn't
> > care if he gets her emails. :)
> >
>
> fair enough (he can also discard delivered mail anyway). but I've seen a
> lot of people subscribing to services with a mistyped address (their
> own) and then calling us to complain why they didn't get the
> confirmation request...
>
> anyway, your "corpus" is probably usable provided one uses heuristics to
> avoid hitting possible ham (or example by computing a distance between
> the recipient address and your valid addresses to make sure the
> recipient address is not mistyped, ... etc). but I still believe it
> should be "reduced" by rejecting mail at smtp time and only keeping some
> selected "trap" addresses (for example /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ to catch
> attempts to use a phone-like address).
>
The bango/mom thing was a joke. Not to make the situation any
worse, but the user has never called me wondering where email they expected
is. But then again, I rarely ever hear from the user period.
Anyway, I'm fine with the 120,000 mails now being considered
useless in the long run. Atleast 2 people put it well enough to me that
I get it. I'm fine with not having ANY spam traps either.
But it still remains, I'm looking to find what people think is
the best way on an MX host to do the rejecting at SMTP time.
Thanks, Tuc
