> From: "Todd Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:28:47 -0700 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: AOL's got nerve > >> Yes. But if a single corp has the power to dictate a procedure that > the entire industry will use, it smacks of monopoly, unfair trade > practices, etc,etc,etc. Gee, this is sounding a lot like the MS > monopoly prosecution. But which side of that argument was AOL on? Hmmm. > > ----- > > Lastly.. If you hate AOL so much then why do you care so much if you can > send email there? >> I don't send emails to AOL users. But our customers do! My only > contact with AOL users is the 1000s of spams that we filter from AOL > addresses. Maybe AOL should practice what they preach and start the > anti-spam campaign at home.
1) How the hell do you get that? Are you high? AOL instituted a policy about what mail they will take. The U.S. Mail service has rules about packages. Should you be able to dip a box in gravy and then take it to the post office and expect them to take it? The fact is that AOL violated no rule by making an extra check on what mail they will take. They may have done something not covered in an RFC, but then again... RFCs are not rules.. They are merely requests for comment... 2) That is funny because tho many spam claim to have an @aol.com address you will see they actually have nothing to do with aol. Now if something came from a machine on our network well then we have a DNS zone for that and you can most definitely filter out 100% of the mail coming from that zone, and guess what.. If you report it then that user will lose their AOL account. And guess what? AOL doesn't let you use the same credit card for multiple accounts so after the spammer uses all their credit cards up making accounts then they will have to move on to spamming from Juno. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
