[38867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: aol rejects mailing lists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy E. Lynch)
Wed Jun 20 18:27:43 2001
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:27:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
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All -
must be a .com thang - I manage over 700 lists as lists.uoregon.edu with a
fairly high number of aol.com subscriber addresses (mostly students) and
I'm not seeing any bounces - maybe they give .edu a free pass?
Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services
Computing Center University of Oregon
llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:
>
> 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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