AOL sender filters

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:29:51AM -0800, Bill Campbell thus
spoke:

> I'm getting more than a bit tired of seeing messages like this
> in my postmaster mailbox every day. I get enough messages to
> deal with without having to see who some members don't like.

> These bounces come from AOL's mail filters. I don't use AOL
> so don't know how these work so can't say whether there's an
> option to turn the bounce notices off, but if there isn't I
> would suggest that the AOL users who don't want to read mail
> from list members learn to JHD (Just Hit Delete), and remove
> the filters.

> I'm about ready to take these bounce messages as an indication
> that the person doesn't want to receive mail from the Filepro
> list at all, and remove their subscription.

To me that seems like a reasonable move, and then they can
re-subscribe from a system that won't have that problem  I had one
domain that was such a serious spam attractant, that I had the
people who had the website change the mails for that domian to
another account, and had them put the names in graphics.  Then I
shut down all MX records for that domains.

It was getting between 250,000 to 300,000 spam emails a day, and
about 50 - 75 legitimate emails at the most.  The fact that it
comes in Googe AND Teoma in the number #1 slot with a single
keyword just made it impossible to accept mail for that domain.

The other solution might be to configure your digestifier so that
replies go to the list by default when you make a reply, instead of
going to the user who sent it.   

I recall that you had a reaon for replies to be sent to the
originator by default and not back to the list, but I don't recall
what it was.   Many of the lists I subscribe to default to repling
to the list.

Bill

> >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at aol.com>
> >To: <filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com>
> >Subject: Mail Delivery Problem
> >Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:56:39 EST
> >
> >
> >Your mail to the following recipients could not be delivered because they are not accepting mail from xxxxxxx at hotmail.com:
> >	xxxxxxx
> >
> 
> 
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