[73879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thornton)
Tue Sep 7 07:28:29 2004
From: Thornton <thornton-nanog@cierragroup.com>
To: Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
Cc: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>, rwcrowe@comcast.net,
andrew@ishiboo.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00cc01c494cb$ef1e0350$21e0a8c0@petersdesktopho>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:27:45 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 04:15, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Robert Blayzor wrote:
> > One would hope that they're rejecting the incoming mail with a 400
> > series error and not 500 series.
>
> Where does the 400lb gorilla lie down ? Whereever it likes.
>
> AOL does pretty much anything it wants to. If they start 500'ing your mail,
> it becomes your problem. Unless you have a large budget and a good legal
> team.
>
> Peter
>
Only thing you can do is try to call them but that probably wont get you
anywhere. If you have enough customers on AOL they can complain and if
you really have a lot could get it removed.
But for the most part your just SOL
Thornton
Cierra Group
www.cierragroup.com
Efficient Licensing and Consulting
