On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 03:40 PM, Dan Mick wrote:
Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
you go tell hotmail to fix itself, Barry.
...or tell your users to drop that piece of crap.
yes yes, I know, millions on the Internet, elitist attitude, yadda yadda.
nah, it's even simpler: if I take a "me or him" attitude, chances are, they'll choose "him". Not a fight I want to take (I'm already having too much fun with AOL, as my blog will show. sigh. grump. I have better things to do), and not a fight I feel I can win.
hotmail is a 500 pound gorilla. I leave tilting at windmills to the youngsters out there, and prefer quiet co-existance.
Seems to me, since it's fairly easy to parse the "this is a warning message" stuff, we ought to.
It is?
I've seen a *lot* of those sorts of messages. Every two-bit MTA admin in the world seems to want to customize his own.
In the bounce system I've been writing, I'm up to about 99.46% resolution, including throwing out of soft bounces like this (having recently whacked 3 million or so bounces down to 20,000, I think I've got a pretty good test sample, too). and half of what I can't process are @$#@%W%% first class bombosities.
so yes, it's fairly easy. I doubt mailman can get QUITE to the level of processing I am, because I'm able to do some stuff you might not be able to get away with, but the answer to the general question is "i've already done it".
-- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui@plaidworks.com -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/
He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier.