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kooshball
on Feb 1, 2012
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Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery
> sadly any properties that use yahoo servers or sympatico.ca, bell.ca, always return "OK" and you physically need to bounce an email to verify it
This is standard technique used to prevent spammer from mining the whole userbase.
leeoniya
on Feb 1, 2012
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yes, i realize this. still doesn't help the situation much :(
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This is standard technique used to prevent spammer from mining the whole userbase.