On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:27:47 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > What Doug Royer is complaining about is that his mail client previously > told him right away. He didn't have to wait for a bounce. Now he has to > wait for a bounce, and that is a "big change". Oh? Do you have proof that "right away" means "immediate in-line checking"? My laptop is currently a 100BaseT and a gigabit hop from the mail server - a proper bounce done the way you want can arrive in under 2-3 seconds. If you count in the fact that my laptop has a perfectly good MTA of its own, a bounce can come back before I've gotten the mouse cursor off the 'send' button. Contrast that to a possibly multiple-hour wait if you're sending it off to wherever Verisign is sucking your mail. And *MAYBE* a bounce. (Work out what happens if you send to more than one bad recipient).
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