[171297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Mail updates DMARC policy to 'reject'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Apr 25 12:15:46 2014
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:11:37 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Steven Saner <ssaner@hubris.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <535A87AB.1050601@hubris.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On 4/25/14, 9:04 AM, Steven Saner wrote:
> On 04/25/2014 10:59 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
>>> On 4/25/2014 8:00 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Grant Ridder<shortdudey123@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thought i would throw this out there.
>>>
>>>> Curious I unleashed grep on a couple of mailing lists I operate.
>>>
>>>> I turned up one AOL address.
>>>
>>>> I'm not saying my data is representative of the Internet, but I
>>>> remember a time when they were 50% of the addresses on my mailing
>>>> lists.
>>>
>>> I doubt the largest list I manage is representative of anything beyon=
d
>>> an insane asylum, but out of 900-950, there are SIX of those laying
>>> around. Those are all addresses receiving email (I looked at the logs=
,
>>> just to verify). You just never know.
>>
>> Keep in mind that mailing list membership is heavily dependent on
>> demographics of their common interest. Many mailing lists that folks
>> on this list run themselves are likely to be technical in nature, and
>> therefore less likely to have @aol.com address.
>>
>> On the other hand, I belong to a club for people who collect license
>> plates. They tend to be older. 11% (320 of them) are active AOL
>> users.
>>
>> Royce
>=20
>=20
> We run several mailing lists for customers. We frequently get feedback
> reports from AOL saying that the AOL user has flagged the message as
> spam. So, we remove said user from the list. They then complain that
> they have been removed and swear that they didn't do it. Anyone have a
> handle on what this is about?
It's a user interface problem. marked messages disappear. aol user
employees this in lieu of mailbox filtering. it could have been fixed a
decade ago.
> Steve
>=20
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