At 11:38 AM -0600 5/23/2000, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
email lists of varying sizes. I'd like to create lists of 1k, 10k, 100k, 250k, 500k, and 1M recipients. Do you think between us we can gather 1M fake recipients for a test list?
I could probably donate 5% to 10% of that amount across a few upstream lines.
If you're going to do this, you should generate a list that includes a range of addresses, including hard and soft bounces and successful deliveries. Which would imply addresses that are pre-set up to go to domains that voluntarily eat and/or bounce them.
you can also use any number of the spam holes out there (pretty much any domain one letter off from hotmail.com, for instance hotmal.com) that are preying on user typos to suck folks into web sites -- almost all of those reject mail or have disconnected SMTP completely, and since they're slime, I have no problem using them to test mail bouncing addresses.. (grin)
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