Randall Shaw <cour...@randallshaw.com> wrote:
Plus it seems to be a bit less overhead by simply pitching an email
Less overhead?
If you behave as current netiquette recommends, and immediately reject
a message addressed to an unknown recipient: [a] your system will never
receive the header and body of the message, so you will consume no
resources processing them; [b] the legitimate non-spamming sender, who
simply misread an unclear hand-written e-mail address, will be informed
that his message was not delivered.
If instead you choose to accept the message, and pretend to deliver it,
just because you frellin hate spammers: [a] your system will receive the
contents of the message, which will consume your network bandwidth and
CPU cycles; [b] the frellin spammers will not care; [c] the legitimate
non-spamming sender and the intended recipient will both be angry at you
(justifiably) when they learn, two weeks later, that your system only
pretended to deliver the message, because it was configured by a frellin
spammer hater who didn't care about netiquette.
In summary: you should trust the people whose recommendations become
widely accepted netiquette. They know stuff.
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