RE: [Asrg] 2.a.1 Analysis of Actual Spam Data -Experimental Desi gn

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 4:31 PM -0500 2003/08/18, Sauer, Damon wrote:

>   It is not C-R.
	Sorry, my mistake.  I misunderstood.

>                  You give me a RCPT TO: the RCPT TO: is checked against my
>  address database. If it is good I say OK. If it is bad I say 550 No such
>  user.
	Okay, now I'm really confused.  I thought that most mail systems 
did this -- if you try to send mail to an account that doesn't exist, 
they respond with an error and refuse to accept the message.  Thus, 
the mail volume goes down.

	Is there something additional that has been done here?

--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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