[pmmail-list] how many addresses can pm mail send safely at once?

[Marty Rimpau]

Hi, Carl, these are people on a list I run, and not people who have
never contacted me, and I don't know how to set up a list using yahoo
or another such web site, so it is not just randum addresses of people
I don't know.  Not to go in to detail, but I have two lists, one list
receives attachments, and the other list receives links, because some
people don't know how to download yet on my list, and the bulk of the
messages are going to the people who want the link, and thus the large
group.  The problem comes when people don't tell me they're changing
email addresses, or don't manage their email propperly so that their
inboxes bounce.  On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:55:52 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr
wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 05:04:22 -0800, Marty Rimpau wrote:
>
>>Hi list, I have two groups I send email to, and one of them contains
>>109 names or aelias's, but I keep getting messages back from
>>destinations I'm not familiar with, and don't know if this is because
>>pm mail is over loaded with addresses or what, and I'm wondering if it
>>would be better to have smaller groups?  It seems that pm mail should
>>be able to process these addresses, but many times, I get messages back
>>from domaines that appear to be in great britain, yet, I can't find
>>those addresses in my address book, one such address is
>>01asha@earthlink.net, but can't find who that address belongs to, plus,
>>there are lots of those mime encapsulated messages to deal with, so is
>>pm mail the problem, or, is it invallid email addresses that are the
>>problem?  Thanks for helping in advance.  
>>Marty
>
>Please don't take this the wrong way, but some questions pop into my
>own mind about what you are doing:
>
>1)  Why are you sending large volumes of messages to IDs that you do
>not know?  This is what spammers do!
>
>2)  Do you have all of these unknown IDs because you are somehow adding
>the ID of anyone listed in an E-Mail that you receive added to your
>address book?
>
>3)  Have you tried sending to this massive list using 'bcc' lists so
>the IDs do not show up anywhere except at the recipient POP server.
>
>Part of the reason I ask these questions is because I am still quite
>aware of all of the spam and viruses that I received earlier this year
>from IDs that I did not know, many listing *my* ID as the sender.  A
>number of the recent viruses just go through the victim's address book
>and pull anything that looks like an E-Mail ID and buries the ID in the
>recipient list.  One ID is randomly picked to be the Sender.
>
>My suggestion:  Go through your list and purge those IDs that you do
>not know.  Otherwise, you have, in essence, become a spammer.
>
>Now, maybe you have a completely valid reason for doing what you are
>doing.  But, my knee-jerk reaction is that you should clean up your
>list before you just make the situation worse.
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