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On 04/22/02, James Cronin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Spam has reached such epic porportions that it is virtually guranteed that if you send mail out on a regular basis, you will eventually be blackholed somewhere. But if you follow the advice here (as it sounds like you are), most sane folks will still accept your mail. > 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 ;) It varies a lot, depending on the provider. However, it'd probably help to remember that a load of mail which might DoS a small provider will almost certainly set off alarms at large providers...and that may get you blocked. -- J.D. Falk "say your peace" -- Scott Nelson <[email protected]> (probably a typo, but I like it)
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