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Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Thu Feb 26 08:57:24 2009

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:57:18 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902261342250.60766@simone.iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, John R. Levine wrote:
>
> Sounds like it might be time to reconsider your mailing list config.  A decade
> ago, bandwidth was really expensive and it made sense to try to load up lots
> of recipients per delivery.  These days it's essentially free, and any saving
> in bandwidth is swamped by the extra manual effort of having to do bounce
> management by hand.

Mailman's bounce parser is clever enough that there's no manualarity.

AOL's ARF redaction also causes problems identifying problem .forwarders.
I don't understand what they are trying to defend against.

Tony.
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