[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[Tim McGraw]

David Bolt wrote:
> Tim McGraw wrote:
>> David Bolt wrote:
>>> Tim McGraw wrote:
>>>> As to what "Many systems will reject any email which has no "TO"
>>>> recipient" means: some systems will not accept an email which has only
>>>> BCC recipients.
>>>  While others will let it pass through unmolested.
>> I was made aware of the problem sending press releases to reporters and
>> industry analysts who specifically requested the information. A
>> postmaster at one of the trade journals responded to my query on their
>> NDR and told me that's how they had set up their mail system.
> That is about the dumbest way of doing things possible. Apart from the
> fact that there are broken mail servers (Exchange) that replace the NDR
> with a "helpful", and often incorrect, explanation, what on earth made
> him think people are going to read an NDR because it might actually
> contain the reply? He didn't have to wear a pair of earphones attached
> to an auto-reversing tape that just played "breathe in, breathe out"
> continually, did he?

On the one hand I empathize completely with what you're saying.

On the other hand I understand that desperate times call for desperate 
measures.