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?
The people whose bandwidth AOL wastes care. :)
ie, the problem is a non-problem, and if it were, your fix is a non-fix.
If you really think that AOL wasting 1MB of bandwidth for each legitimate E-mail that many legitimate mailservers send them is not a problem, I guess that is your call. All I can say is I hope they start blocking you, if you think it isn't a problem. :)
You talk a lot about how people need vanity settings, etc., but what you ignore is that AOL is choosing *not* to let people know what the problem is. Let's say AOL starts blocking you -- how will you know if [1] Their mailservers are down, [2] They don't like the way your E-mail goes from a RoadRunner connection in the U.S. to France back to the U.S., [3] 3 of your 4 nameservers are timing out (see http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/traversal.ch?name=mgw1.meiway.com&type=A ), [4] One of your mailservers claims to be "virusgate.meiway.com", but the reverse DNS is slightly different ("virus-gate.meiway.com"), [5] One of the IPs that your E-mail went through is listed in a spam database as "Received spam, sent query to ISP that owns the block, waiting on response.", [6] You have an X-Sender: header with an invalid E-mail address (one with 2 "@"'s in it), [7] They have received some spam from your Internet provider, and have blocked all their IPs, [8] You've got a firewall that is blocking the packets, [9] You sent them an E-mail containing the word "via-gra" in the past (which would be very possible in an E-mail to the IMail Forum about spam), [10] Your signature contains a URL.
I think if AOL blocked you (or that customer of yours that sends out millions of joke E-mails a day), you wouldn't be happy anymore. Lets say that joke mailing list customer has 1% of his E-mails going to AOL. That's 10,000 E-mails/day. That's 10GB of traffic a day. That alone would saturate a T1 line. Now, we're talking DoS!
-Scott
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