[Gllug] Testing spam filter

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sun Mar 8 14:29:03 UTC 2009


John G Walker wrote:
> Thus confirming to the spammers that they have a genuine email address
> to sell on.
>   

Umm, no it doesn't.  They would get no more information than "we think 
your email is spam".  It says nothing about whether the mailbox exists 
or not.

> What is "correct" about this behaviour?

It's the correct, indeed only, way to permanently reject an email.

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