AOL sender filters

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
...
>> > >Your mail to the following recipients could not be delivered because they are not accepting mail from xxxxxxx at hotmail.com:
>> > >     xxxxxxx
>[...]
>
>But the "problem" is that this person has told AOL to bounce e-mail from
>a given source.  Moving to another system won't stop the person from
>blacklisting the same person again.

I don't care who they blacklist so long as I don't have to see the bounce
messages.

>Well, actually, I guess the "real" problem is that it's set to send a
>bounce message to the Errors-To address, rather than simply discard it.
>So, moving to a system that doesn't send an error message will get rid
>of the problem.
>
>If the bounce message includes the text of the original e-mail, this
>sounds like an open invitation to get AOL's servers to spam on your
>behalf.  (Especially if it discards the original headers, and just
>keeps the text.)

That isn't a problem with AOL bounces.  AOL just sends the text quoted
above.

FWIW, AOL is doing some very positive things in the war against spam (e.g.
rejecting mail from hosts with no reverse DNS, actively blocking hosts that
are running zombie servers on Windows boxes, putting pressure on broadband
providers to clean up their networks, etc.).  900lb gorillas like AOL tend
to get attention from other ISPs when they start refusing e-mail from them.

Bill
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