Re: Spam and NDR

I disagree.
It may be true in the past but these days we receive thousands of incoming
mail deliberately sent to non-existent addresses. I just can't imagine
sorting through thousands of (intentionally mispelled) email and guess which
ones are actually non intentional. If the senders can't spell, that's their
problem. Oh yeah, they'd definitely receive NDRs.

"Robert Williams" <RobertW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:uKVgoT8GGHA.2696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I'm sorry, Andy, but I have to disagree with that statement. I have found
it
> useful to accept mail for accounts that do not exist, but ONLY because we
have
> lost very important e-mails because people can't spell.
>
> We had a case where a client of ours was being sued because of a
handicapped
> path of travel that wasn't built to standard. Because we are the Civil
> Engineering company that originally designed the path to meet ADA
Standards, the
> e-mails were extremely important. One of the brilliant attorneys sending
out
> e-mails inadvertently misspelled the e-mail address of the contact here in
our
> company.
>
> Had we had that feature enabled, I (as the postmaster) would not have
received
> it and been able to forward it on to the intended contact.
>
> Now, I'm not saying that it is for everyone, but to have all the e-mails
for
> accounts that don't exist forwarded to one person is a small price to pay
versus
> the price of missing out on something of that importance.
>

Sorting through thousands of junk mail and clogging your server with tons of
NDRs that go nowhere because their return address is bogus is a very big
price to pay and I definitely won't be the one doing the sorting just
because someone can't spell.

> Just something to ponder. Sorry to intrude.
>
> RW
>


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