[35973] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AOL holes again.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Mar 20 13:46:15 2001
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From: Richard Welty <rwelty@vpnet.com>
To: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:43:59 -0500
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> That may be the case, but the fix is not to put any server
> that generates
> "lots of mail" into the bitbucket. I've been getting
> complaints from a
> number of list members (no spam or relaying from mailinglists.org, I
> promise) that folks on AOL suddenly stopped getting the
> majority of their
> list mail.
i suggest not jumping to any conclusions here.
i run digest.net, a smallish not-very-profitable electronic mailing
list host, and i observed similar dropouts, but discovered that my
reverse DNS lookups were broken, and AOL's current policy is to reject
email from hosts for which reverse DNS isn't working properly.
richard
