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> Any system which accepts mail but neither forwards it to its destination
> nor notifies the sender that the mail couldn't be forwarded is broken.
> It's that simple. If you're not intending to forward it, don't even
> accept it.
>
> OTOH If the mail goes to a human and they make policy decisions, that
> is fine, but it would be good etiquette to inform people in advance that
> their mail may be arbitrarily dropped, edited, forwarded, delayed and
> otherwise maltreated -- all in the name of the group of course.
OTGH, a way of bouncing email to a specified address, can be used to
mailbomb, so it's not quite as simple as it might be.
It should ideally be rejected at the SMTP level.
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