[58798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WTF?? Was: AOL email concerns for pil.net (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sun Jun 1 11:08:38 2003
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 10:07:54 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: up@3.am
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0306011026250.90337-100000@richard2.pil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
up@3.am wrote:
>
> I just received 2 copies of this email from AOL's Postmaster, and it looks
> genuine. We filter via SpamAssassin, but do not bounce spam or virii, but
> divert them to separate folders.
>
> 2) Total percentage of bounces accepted by pil.net (lower than 90% acceptance): 74%
I think this one is cute. Do you reject AOL bounces or is someone doing
a dictionary attack spoofing your domain with random usernames and the
AOL system is unable to deliver the bounced email to your system. You'd
think they'd filter out the "User unknown"'s.
-Jack
