You are the one that said the whole reason AOL is "dumb blocking" (and wasting tons of bandwidth) is because spammers will not go away with standard blocking (a problem).
correct
So if you are now saying that it is NOT a problem for AOL to use standard blocking
I don't care, and AOL doesn't care, does anybody care? whether AOL sends one 5xx before TCP blocking or not.
I say that the single 5xx you claim as a "fix", to the "problem" you raise, is totally insignificant. ie, the problem is a non-problem, and if it were, your fix is a non-fix.
, you are agreeing with me? Cool.
I don't agree that AOL dumb/smart TCP blocking is a "significant" problem for legit senders costing them big $$$ and "wasting" terabytes of legit senders' bandwidth.
What's great about whatever AOL is doing, and will be doing later, is that every server wanting to send to AOL had better be absolutely legit technically. AOL's raising of the level of credentials for MTAs is good for all of Internet. Hotmail, MSN, yahoo need to get on that bandwagon.
I'm waiting and hoping that AOL + the others will start participating in and insisting on DMP/SPF for all senders, then we will make a huge leap forward in stopping forgeries, and force spammers into more easily identifiable and blockable networks.
Len
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