VERPing and Personalization (was Re: [TriLUG] Iptables help)

[Jon Carnes]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 13:57, Turnpike Man wrote:
> /me VERPS  ... excuse me... what's VERP!?!  :)
> 
> --- Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:
> > 
> > So, what do people think?  (How many people are still going WTF is
> > VERP? :-)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> 
Sending out email to a list of folks and doing it one person at a time. 
Each person on the list gets their own individual email.

On a list, it is hard to tell where a bounce or an obnoxious
auto-responder is coming from (especially when the auto-responder tries
to anonimize itself as happened earlier). VERPing a list lets you send
the messages out one at a time with a special signature in each message
so you can tell the real email address that bounced or was responded to.

If you look at Tanners example you will see that the To: field was
mirrored in the From: field using some particularly tricky features of
SMTP.  The dumb (and obnoxious) auto-responder can't help but give
itself away when it responds.

Jon