Gee. It sucks to be successful! But with success comes more than a few headaches. And a responsibility to your customers. At the very least AOL should tell the world, very publicly, what they are doing, why they are doing it, and the impact it will have on the international mail delivery scheme. Then when my customers can't get a message to AOL, they will already know that its AOL rejecting the message and not me failing to deliver the message.
But, that would make AOL look bad. And they don't like that kind of publicity, so they continue to infer that the problem is exclusively with the small ISPs and hosting shops. That's how big business works in this country: squash the small guy, make everyone else do as much of your work as possible, etc,etc,etc. Todd Holt Xidix Technologies, Inc Las Vegas, NV USA www.xidix.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: AOL's got nerve [This email took a suspicious route to arrive here; Suspected SPAM (4)] >If it were about serving the customer When AOL went to court to sue a spammer, AOL reported 8 million spam complaints from their subscribers. SPAM's multi $M cost to AOL, now in precarious financial situation vs the bubble time, is on the management, legal, financial radar. They and MSN (went with Brighmail) of course want to retain $$subscribers. How could you think otherwise? Being a big company, they are also a big litigation $$target (small, medium ISPs aren't), so they have to be extra careful about blocking. They have been sued for losses due to mail non-delivery. It's so easy to bitch and whine about AOL, but what would you do with SPAM at the scale of 30 million mail accounts and 8 million spam complaints? Your justifiably beloved small-scale content-scanners like Declude and Sniffer would melt down in a minute trying to content-scan 100's of GB/day. Content-scanning is just not an option at the scale, so you would fall back on the much more efficient envelope-rejection and IP blocking. You can see that MSN employed Brightmail, and then a few weeks later starting widespread blocking of networks (I bet it was because the Brightmail content-scanning couldn't keep up with MSN volumes, or they knew they could greatly obviate the burden on content-scanning by network blocking). Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: New York; Seattle; Chicago IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free 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/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] 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/
