[73890] 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 11:33:56 2004
From: Thornton <thornton-nanog@cierragroup.com>
To: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409071052360.26401@westnet.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:31:09 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 07:59, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> > Any network that doesn't already have it, I highly recommend signing up
> > for AOL's feedback loop (aka scomp reports) at
> > http://postmaster.aol.com/tools/fbl.html. This will give you a sort of
> > early warning system notifying you of spam issues on your network.
>
> And you will also get random emails that your users have sent to AOL users,
> who then click on "Report as spam" seemingly at random.
>
> I've received Spam reports on e-mail asking when someone's kids should be
> picked up at school, giving directions for a job interview, CONGRATULATING
> that same person on being accepted for the job, and in once case received
> a 'spam complaint' on every mail my user sent as part of a conversation.
>
> As in, the AOL user replied, then clicked "Report as spam". He received a
> reply to his reply, replied, and Reported as Spam. This was not a "Stop
> e-mailing me" conversation. It was a perfectly normal conversation between
> two people.
>
> Then there are the people who have mail forwarded from here to their AOL
> account, and can't get it through their thick skulls that "Report as spam"
> isn't doing a damn thin in this case.
thats because they think report as spam is the same as delete. they dont
want the email anymore so lets click report as spam
>
> Grrrr.
>
> So it's a nice idea -- but IMHO fails in practice.
>
> ==========================================================
> Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816
> WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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