I wonder how many would change regardless if it were openly disclosed what the read side effects of this type of spam blocking were (ie, you can't communicate with any legit business that is using a DSL line for the company). Previous challenge/response attempts (with probably fewer blocked legit emails) were met with howls of outrage and abandoned (at the ISP level).
And, of course, AOL has so many other options that are not so draconian. Example: add a header to all mail from a DSL server and give EACH user a setting they could click to decide to block or quarantine such email for review (with their own whitelist/address book to override such blocking) is only one such easy solution. Yes they have to process all that nasty mail (and risk virus infection approximately 5 milliseconds sooner from those sloppy DSL users), but the end effect to their users in spam control is the same or better with a better fp ratio (or at least not their doing blocking legit msgs). > -----Original Message----- > From:John Tolmachoff > > 30million love us. :) You better run and tell everyone that they hate us > so > > they will know better and not use our service. > > It would be interesting to see exactly how many of that 30 million would > drop AOL in a heart beat if it wasn't for the fact that they have so much > tied to that e-mail address. 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/
