[38866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: aol rejects mailing lists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Wed Jun 20 18:20:50 2001
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:19:49 -0400
To: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>
Cc: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Message-ID: <20010620181949.A10345@semihuman.com>
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From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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AOL is seriously cracking down on mailing lists, mainly because it's
difficult to tell a mailing list from a spam run. This has been discussed
on SPAM-L; AOL must "whitelist" your mailing list, and there's a long
agreement that the admin has to sign before they'll do so. However, I have
no clue who to contact at AOL that handles this; let me work some inside
contacts and see if I can't find anything out.
-Chris
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0600, Aaron Dewell wrote:
>
>
> One could assume that to cut down on spam, they are requiring the
> RCPT to match either To or Cc in the body. It might be a valid
> strategy except that it breaks mailing lists and Bccs. They might
> be willing to pay that price, so you might be out of luck.
>
> Either that or they broke something. :)
>
> Aaron
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've noticed on one of the mailing lists that I'm running that AOL has just
> > started bouncing email (like literally a few minutes ago) sent to subscribers
> > of the list. Email does get delivered properly when sent directly to the
> > subscribers. If the mail gets delivered thru the list, it's rejected with a
> > 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND which is bogus.
> >
> > Anyone encountered this before? How do I get them to stop this nonsense?
> > Help?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
>
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