[Gllug] ping

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Feb 9 07:32:11 UTC 2006


On Wed, 08 Feb 2006, Tethys moaned:
> Nix writes:
> 
>>No mail server on the modern Internet should generate bounces for
>>unroutable mail. (I'd hope the MessageLabs guy told you as much.)
> 
> Ha ha ha! Oooh, my aching sides. When we were forced to use MessageLabs
> at a previous job (by our parent company), I flat out refused until they
> would agree to not generate bounces, and to not send out notifications
> to sender and recipient when they'd blocked spam. It took nearly a year
> before they agreed to do that, and had the necessary modifications made
> to their systems to allow it.

WTF are they playing at then? I know a few people there and they'd eat
their own hats before they'd agree to something as stupid as that.
(Mind you this may have been forced on them by clueless management.)

How long ago was this?

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