[Info-vax] What is the correct way to contact VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/25/19 2:22 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/25/2019 1:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2019-11-25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 
>> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>> In article <qrgqk3$7e1$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> I notice that if checking "theberrymans.com" on an online blacklist
>>>> service, it gets hits in 4 lists. Dont know if it is significant...
>>>
>>> Probably.  Be happy they didn't drop the SMTP connection, preventing the
>>> email from being delivered at all.
>>>
>>
>> No, dropping the connection with a reject status is _exactly_ what
>> should have happened, especially if it was a blacklisting issue,
>> so that Mark would have been told immediately his email had not been
>> delivered instead of him having to wonder if anyone at VSI was ever
>> going to get back to him.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> People need to stop thinking of email as reliable.  It most definitely 
> is not.
> 
> A short while back Roland and I were having a discussion about 
> communications.  I maintained that a valid communication system must 
> include handshakes to insure both sides of the communication were 
> notified of completion.  Very explicit handshakes.  That really doesn't 
> exist in email.
> 
> Even with a phone, I don't consider that I've really tried until I've 
> tried a call several times.  Once sometimes just doesn't do it.
> 
> Simon is correct, it is better to be told of failure, than to not have 
> some type of confirmation.
> 

One reason not to confirm failure is it tells the SPAMMER that using
that address is not productive.

bill