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RE: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Thu Feb 24 13:58:29 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:11:02 -0500
From: "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: "chuck goolsbee" <chucklist@forest.net>, <nanog@merit.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Postini is my friend :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
chuck goolsbee
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:19 PM
To: nanog@merit.org
Subject: Re: AOL scomp
>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=20
user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account.=20
Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source.
And the remaining third seems to be just plain old normal personal=20
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=20
their end-users out of the filtering mechanism somehow.
--chuck
--=20
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