[35976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL holes again.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter van Dijk)
Tue Mar 20 15:42:25 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:40:02 +0100
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
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In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010320133523.00aaec98@babyblue.boii.com>; from ken@boii.com on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:36:02PM -0500
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:36:02PM -0500, ken harris. wrote:
> >If the MSNBC article is anywhere near correct (yeah, a big assumption) then
> >what AOL was doing was black-holing any "high-volume" source. While that
> >is a noble goal, the fact that any mailing list would fall into that
> >category is pretty lame.
>
> http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html#lists
This basically means AOL is violating the very spirit of SMTP - you
say '250 message accepted', and you deliver it to all recipients you
specified acceptance for, or produce bounces.
Greetz, Peter.
