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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by jmatthews on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:49PM (#26287078)
You don't bounce emails you prebounce them and clean up your list. This is part of any sensible data engineers process.
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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by jmatthews on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:00PM (#26287185)
More helpfully, salting their db with real emails but fake contact info requires a more durable hygiene process and often isn't worth the effort for data driven shops.

You serve a variety of email domains that validate as deliverable, then you accept emails and report the sender, which hurts their deliverability.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:05PM (#26287218)
what is prebounce?
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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by shervinafshar on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:32PM (#26287463)
My guess was they are referring to one of these services that check the validity of any email address. A false signal from one of these services prevented me from signing up for some random website with a .name domain the other day.
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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by tyingq on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:41PM (#26289217)
Email them from a throwaway domain and ip, toss out hard bounces from the list, so you don't poison your SMTP reputation?
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