From: Craig Sanders (no email)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 05:41:35 EDT
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:38:24PM +0000, *Hobbit* wrote:
> VERP, if that's what it implies about sender addresses, appears to be
> a miserable crock because in part nobody running such a mailing list
> ever READS THEIR GODDAMN BOUNCES and takes appropriate action. Maybe
> it's worth blocking all of it outright and telling mailing list
> maintainers to use a more real and consistent sender address. What
> does this VERP thing buy anyone, anyways, that something like a
> message-ID can't?
VERP buys a lot, for the people who need it (generally people running
large mailing lists). the price is that you have to send an individual
message per recipient. in some situations, the price is well worth
paying or it is inevitable anyway due to a need/desire for
"personalisation" (IMO, yuk & gross...but some people like it) of the
messages.
the whole point of VERP is that every message sent encodes the recipient
address in the sender address - allowing for completely automated bounce
detection (and unsubscription of adresses that bounce too often).
with VERP, the mailing list admin should never NEED to look at the
bounces - it's possible for the list to handle it all 100%
automatically.
craig
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