[73893] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Tue Sep 7 12:14:53 2004
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:14:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409071145100.25642@web1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Yeah...there's a certain amount of GIGO since the scomp system relies on
> the lusers to decide what's spam and what's not...but that's not a serious
> problem. IME, AOL won't block you unless you're getting thousands of
> scomp complaints/day and seem to be ignoring them. A handful of bogus
> ones are just a few messages your abuse people can delete when they see
> the mail appears to not really be spam.
Well, maybe I'm spoiled. :-) Thing is, our 'abuse people' is me. I used to
measure the number of mails sent to abuse@ in <10 messages/month, and most
of those are misdirected for westnet.net, or west.net, or westnet.com.au or
. . . take your pick.
As of now the bulk of all abuse mail is scomp noise. If anything I'm afraid
I'm going to miss a real problem burried in the garbage.
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