[78167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Thu Feb 24 13:26:59 2005
In-Reply-To: <421E0EDA.7000106@wmis.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:18:35 -0800
To: nanog@merit.org
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists.
The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the
user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account.
Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source.
And the remaining third seems to be just plain old normal personal
correspondence ... which I find weird.
>Ahh well -- this is a nice mechanism that AOL provides, IMO.
Agreed, though maybe they should look at SpamAssasin or Postini. Take
their end-users out of the filtering mechanism somehow.
--chuck
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