Popularity Contest: (Dapper) bouncing mail

[Derek Broughton]

Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:

>>Actually, it looks like it's rejecting domains that can't be
>>found in DNS.
>>Seems a little unnecessary - why would they feel that I _must_
>>give them a valid email address?  It makes me a little less
>>confident of their promises to not misuse any information they collect.
> 
> This is quite common practice with mail servers. Don't blame them,
> rather blame those who send spam and forge e-mail addresses!
> This policy catches a few spam mails early on.

No, I do blame them.  It's one thing to do that with a real mail account,
it's completely unnecessary to do it with something that is strictly using
SMTP as a data transfer protocol.  Popcon can simply toss anything that
doesn't fit the popcon format.
-- 
derek