[Mailman-Developers] suggested improvement for Mailman's bounce processing

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 8 August 2006 05:10:41 -0500 Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> 
wrote:

>
> Or some other kind of bounce.
>
>>    This is the status quo. People may already be incorrectly
>>    unsubscribed. This is a real problem when it occurs. It can happen
>>  because a server refuses messages with illegal (RFC non-compliant)
>>  headers, as well as when the content is offensive.
>
> Or when the server looks up your IP address and finds it on a black
> list, or thinks it finds it on a blacklist which no longer exists, or
> any number of other problems.

It doesn't matter. The point is that they're NOT saying the recipient 
doesn't exist. Currently, we treat this situation as if they do, and we 
shouldn't!





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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex