Re: [binc] Binc list protection.

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Kenneth Lyons wrote:
> Reject does waste a bit a bandwidth with all the retries. But it seems 
> good to inform the sender that their email was ignored right on the SMTP 
> (as opposed to an autoreply which could be a fake address).

Indeed; bounces are sadly very necessary for legitimate email. Email in 
general is really broken :-/, thanks a lot to the Kings of Spam.

I'm open to all suggestions to limit spam traffic; Gerrit suggested once 
that we drop subscriptions and simply introduce a confirm-per-message 
approach. How does that sound?

Andreas

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