Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 05:25:16PM -0500,
> Chris Owen <owenc () hubris net> wrote
> a message of 53 lines which said:

> It is because, if someone reports (by telephone, IRC or IRL) that he
> sent an email and I did not receive it, I regard as VERY IMPORTANT to
> be able to check the spam folder (with a search tool, not by hand) and
> go back to him saying "No, we really did not receive it".

In article
<!&!AAAAAAAAAAAuAAAAAAAAAKTyXRN5/+lGvU59a+P7CFMBAN6gY+ZG84BMpVQcAbDh1IQAA
AATbSgAABAAAACflLoEBLafQbWWwpT+evpQAQAAAAA=@iname.com>, Frank Bulk -
iNAME <frnkblk () iname com> writes
> You mean, you don't employ *any* spam mitigation techniques besides sorting?
> Because if you do anything, even as basic as RBLs, you're not being
> consistent with your stance.

I agree completely with Chris Owen's approach, even though I use spam
mitigation techniques.

The reason for this is because those "lost" emails that I very
occasionally rescue from the spam bucket are:

NOT sent by someone on an RBL

NOT sent to an unpublished and unused address
                                (eg sales () internetpolicyagency com)
etc.
-- 
Roland Perry