[78367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Hicks)
Wed Mar 2 11:51:08 2005
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:50:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
To: vinny@tellurian.com, ops.lists@gmail.com
Cc: jes@nl.demon.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, tabes@wmis.net,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:25:56 +0530
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
>
>
> 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.
There aready ARE such headers... "Resent-From:", "Resent-To:", ...
>
> --srs
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
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