[92662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Lameness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Oct 2 15:09:38 2006
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:35:55 PDT."
<1b5c1c150610021035oeb953dbvb3443081754cd52a@mail.gmail.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:30:08 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:35:55 PDT, Mike Lyon said:
>
> Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail
> to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse
> lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's
> postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL:
> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html
Postings on spam-l indicate that AOL had some broken filters that improperly
identified URLS - the intent was to catch URLs of the form
http://2993432234133/some/path/here, but it was also catching some/123423433/here
as well. Whoops. AOL has backed the filter out.
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