[Gllug] VACANCY: Technical Manager

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On 2 Jan 2009, Benjamin Donnachie said:

> 2009/1/2 jt at camalyn.org <jt at camalyn.org>:
>> I don't see how. It takes little effort to reply to someone just to say
>> thanks but I'm not interested rather than suggest that that person has
>> sent unsolicited e-mails and in such a ridiculous quantity as 500!
>
> Er, no.  What actually was suggested was that they'd received enough
> junk from you to warrant having their smtp server respond with status
> code 550.  Put basically, this will cause emails to be rejected and
> not retried.  When I ran my own smtp server this is exactly the
> approach I adopted to unwanted emails.

Of course, Chiark's mailserver is intentionally bastardly and often
rejects mails because you looked at it wrong. :)

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