> From: Len Conrad > > >WOW! So the niggling about of customer-specified and/or -delegated > >"vanity PTR" is completely null and void now? > > That was never what AOL said, afaik. > > As one of my posts in this thread said, I don't have that list of > networks/netmasks, so blocking by the PTR hostname was a very effective > equivalent.
But, it is what you said (although perhaps not what you meant): > Anyway, AOL is blocking, or going to block, by network/netmask, not > by PTR hostname, IIUC. AOL blocks by network/mask, but you don't have the list so are using regex instead. AOL may be using PTR now, but is moving to entire blocks based on their connection type instead. That does sound like a move with many other business implications, which Sanford articulated well (won't help AOL here, they can't sell DSL service here, but can 5 miles away). And, the slant on those ISP's that will be hurt is "well, they were spam supporters anyway" (which has already started). No doubt, blocking entire countries will be next. After all, the FP percentage will be small. Who cares if you want to email your relatives in a banned country (unless, of course, they have a nice, safe AOL account). Karen --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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/
