bulk email

Mon Apr 22 14:15:29 UTC 2002

> >Save your hide by getting verification on every entry; i.e:
> >1) Get request.
> >2) Send email to alleged requester.
> >3) Do nothing unless/until you get back a confirming "yes, I do want"
> >   reply.
> 
> Yes, very good point. I should have included that too.

That's exactly what we are doing. Which is good :)

As it's still likely to end up with the most popular domains
@hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, @aol.com having several thousand recipients
though I'm still interested in whether anyone has more experience
of ensuring that mail doesn't get blackholed.

I'm thinking along the lines of whether and how it's necessary to
rate limit sending to those domains, whether they don't like single
messages having more than a certain number of RCPT TO lines, whether
there are contracts that one can sign to get access to some sort of
super special non-public MX for them, etc...

or whether it's just all pot luck ;)

J.