[90188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL 421 errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Thu May 4 13:49:29 2006
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:47:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4459208E.4080604@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Joe Maimon wrote:
> <COUNTER-RANT>
> You know, people say things like this a lot. Its not relevant. What is
> relevant is how AOL is supposed to know that
>
> a) the email considered for rejection is actually wanted
> b) and wanted by AOL employees themselves
>
> And if they did know how to accurately determine that, we wouldnt be having
> this discussion.
The irony here of course, is that Matt Black's systems can't even
tell if they want the mail until _after_ the accept it- but that's a
feature, and AOL's in-transaction softfails are evil. Or something.
matto
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