Re: [Asrg] TitanKey and "white lies"... (Faking SMTP hard errors "improves" C/R utility?)

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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 05:30:29PM -0600, Vernon Schryver wrote:
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> Say that you did find that 87.345% (or whatever) of all spammers today
> respond to 550's.  Instead of sarcasm, please say what you would
> conclude about next month.  How much money would you bet on your answer?

The thread of this discussion, I believe, went as follows: 1) someone
made a claim that most spammers observe 550's and remove the
corresponding addresses from their lists.  2) various people then
responded that in their opinion many/most spammers ignore 550s.  3) if I
understand correctly, you claim that spammers' behavior can't be
presumed to follow any particular rules. 

It seems to me that 3 is completely consistent with 2, and in fact,
almost implies it, and that they both contradict 1: That is, if we
accept your premise that spammers won't follow predictable rules, then
it follows that a substantial percentage of them won't pay attention to
550 responses (otherwise they would be predictabled), and therefore,
point 1 is false. 

The fundamental point is that we can't count on spammers honoring 550s.  

Kent

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