[49500] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AOL mail netblocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Tue Jul 2 11:04:14 2002
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:03:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
To: <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: Daniska Tomas <tomas@tronet.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207021039171.20657-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
> > I was hoping someone was going to say that "AOL already does this
> > themselves". In the 'old' days, there was a list of what to allow
> > under .ipt.aol.com. It's pretty easy for them to do it, and I'm
> > guessing that they do actually filter this outbound, or their
> > managed modem providers may, I'm just looking for a confirmation.
>
> I don't think they do filter outbound SMTP. I've gotten complaints from
> AOL dial-up users that AOL does not filter outbound SMTP, and that they
> don't provide outgoig SMTP servers (hard to believe), so we should not
> block AOL dial-up addresses, because these people have to run their own
> SMTP servers. My thought/feeling on this is "BS and apathy". The vast
> vast majority of AOL dial-ups have no business doing direct-to-MX email.
> The handful that think they do can find workarounds or a more appropriate
> provider.
Ok then, is there a place where I can bath myself in AOL
dialup identified netblocks?
I'm not trying to start a spam discussion here on the Operations
list <g> just get some operational information.
-M
