**You** were not quoted. Nowhere was yours or your company's name mentioned.
Hey, if you're going to quote me, at least quote me correctly. I didn't say it was unmonitored, we do monitor all bounces we get in order to process the NDR's (thousands each day) Like I said on the phone, our emails have completely valid envelope fields, and we update our database to "clean" out the bad email addresses that people often like to sign up with. This doesn't break any RFC that I know of.
That is why this is being discussed on NZNOG - because based on MY reading, it does. But I feel it is important so I have decided to seek the opinion of industry peers. Again, neither you nor your company was named, so it is strictly a technical / operational discussion and one with wider relevance.
We'd just prefer that you don't reply to our CRM messages via SMTP, that's all - hence the "please do not reply to this" at the bottom of all our outbound emails, and the auto-responder if you do happen to send mail to these addresses. If this breaks an RFC, point me at the appropriate place, and I'll change things to fit them.