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...but a horrid problem for the lex-dysic... whose wife has personal and business accounts: fi_lname@work... and lname_fi@personal...

So if I botch an address with lname_fi@work..., her server there is gonna, forever afterward, bounce (or worse, simply dev\nul it) until she cleans my IP out of the filter?

Agreed (I'D YELL AGREEMENT! but that would be impolite... but isn't that solution rather draconian (or, alternately, is there something here I don't understand)?

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Re^4: Finding if email addresses exist?
by mikeraz (Friar) on Jun 23, 2005 at 03:50 UTC

    Dyslexia? That's what address books are for. As it is I lock 'em out for six minutes. A spammer goes on. A legit email will eventually bounce and then can send again.

    Draconian? My tiny little home system went from processing over 30,000 incoming emails a day to ~4,800.

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