[84568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL whitelisting - a heads-up and a request for assistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Figgins)
Fri Sep 16 17:07:45 2005
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:02:45 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sean Figgins <sean@labrats.us>
To: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Cc: Omar Thameen <omar@westside.urbanblight.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <18a5e7cb050916135375cb8fe3@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Bill Stewart wrote:
> > In re-applying for whitelisting, I do see that AOL requires a minimum
> > of 100 emails/month to maintain a whitelist entry. This is new to me,
> > and would be worth nothing for others who may be adding or removing
> > servers.
>
> Sounds like an obvious motivation for any big mailing list vendor to get
> an AOL consumer account and subscribe it to a dummy list with 4-5
> messages/day, or perhaps more often if you want to do more dynamic
> monitoring...
This was not obvious for me before, but I am wondering what happens to the
list servers that are not in AOL's white list? I wonder if it is 100
emails for each list, or 100 emails to AOL from all lists on the server.
More reason to tell AOL users to go to Netscape, I guess.
-Sean
