Re: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Pseudo code please

[Andrew Newton <anewton@verisignlabs.com>]

Kee Hinckley wrote:
> There is more here than a political opinion.  It's a matter of scale. My 
> personal domain bounced 1.5 million messages last year using the 
> standard "bad domain" test that an A wildcard breaks.  That was 17% of 
> the total bounces.  Those were messages sent to non-existent addresses.  
> I can go run the stats and see how many of those messages were sent from 
> other than .com and .net, but I can tell you right now that it's a very 
> small percentage.

As I mentioned to Owen, this kind of information is useful.  So yes, if 
you have it or can get it.

Jeff McAdams wrote:
> And with these two sentences, you demonstrate, clearly, that you (Andy),
> and you (Verisign) "don't get it."

Taking my VeriSign hat off (since you made it personal):
Perhaps I don't -- literally.  I just checked the logs for my personal 
mail server that serves my own domain and a few others.  In the last 4 
weeks, only 0.25% of its traffic had domains that did not exist 
(technically, it is domains that did not verify, but people take that as 
an existence check).  Contrast that with this:  0.65% forged addresses 
from hotmail.com, and 0.41% forged addresses from yahoo.com.  Meanwhile, 
my spam folder says that spamprobe has filtered 5.26% of that mail just 
for me.

So yeah... consider me a skeptic... even if it is not politically correct.

-andy


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