Re: Spam and NDR

To each, his own. We are a small company with 10 employees, we don't get 1000's
of emails per day. We did at one point, but now that I use 3 different blocking
lists and ORFilter, their e-mails have to pass those filters first, if they do,
then I screen them. I now get maybe 100-200 emails per week.

"Ron" <jfkfjdsarewureow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OrCeb28GGHA.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
>

Actually, the NDRs go to the BadMail folder and I have a task setup to delete
those on a daily basis. Besides, I wasn't talking about the NDRs, I was talking
about the actual e-mails that are misdirected. I have those delivered to the
Postmaster, the postmaster forwards them to me and I only get 100-200 of those
per week. 99% of those are extremely easy to recognize as spam and are
immediately deleted.


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


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