[Mailman-Developers] suggested improvement for Mailman's bounce processing

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 7 August 2006 20:35:06 -0500 Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> 
wrote:

> At 3:08 PM -0400 2006-08-07, James Ralston wrote:
>
>>  Perhaps, but we cannot solve this problem, and there's a fine line
>>  between working around stupidity and coddling it.
>
> Right, but if we can't fix the problem of the multitude of broken
> MTAs out there, and the fact that most of them probably don't assign
> the appropriate extended response codes in accordance with the RFCs,
> then the likelihood is that we are going to be lead to make the wrong
> guesses based on the response we get.

We already do that. This is the problem that we're trying to solve, not a 
new problem introduced by the proposal!

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex