Re: ReW: Spam and NDR

"Robert Williams"
<RobertW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.

You didn't lose anything. You never accepted it. That's quite
different.

You must also have a very small number of inbound messages. If we
accepted messages we couldn't deliver someone would have to sort
through abount 1.5 million NDR's a day. That ain't gonna happen.

>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.

I'm sure he also lost your postal address and telephone number.

>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.

Do you also visit the postoffice's deal-leter office to search for
misdirected postal mail? How do you manage to handle all the telephone
calls you don't receive becasue someone dialed the wrong number?

>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.

You're correct. It isn't for everyone -- and nobody should be
penalized for not receiving something that wasn't sent to them.

>Just something to ponder.

No pondering necessary. It's a bad thing to do.

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