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Re: AOL scomp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Mar 1 23:56:26 2005

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:25:56 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc: jes@nl.demon.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	Matt Taber <tabes@wmis.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050301091558.07429908@pop3.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:28:31 -0500, Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com> wrote:
> I can attest that we do not see the same here as you are seeing (1 in 100).
> I'd agree more with the 1/3 being stupid AOL users reporting regular
> messages that were either forwarded from their own account that we host to

Well - there's a way out, sort of.

1. Route .forwarded email out a separate IP (besides cutting down on
accepting and forwarding spam)

or

2. Find some way - like an X-Forwarded-For header, that AOL can tag on.

--srs

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)

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