On 11/15/99 6:40 PM, James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... >On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Nick Simicich wrote: >> Also, AOL is basically in complete violation of RFCs by not bouncing the >> mail to the RFC821 MAIL FROM address. They can get away with it, because >> they are big. > >Ironically, in the past AOL was screamed at for doing just what you >suggest. When they got a mass spam from a forged address, all the bounces >end up mailbombing some poor sap who happens to own the domain in >question. Because AOL is very big and is considered a target rich >environment by spammers, this means that AOL ends up bouncing a lot of >mail in a very short time. You're right, I had forgotten about that. Didn't CyberPromo try to sue AOL claiming the massive bounces were a Denial of Service attack? -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Finger/Web for PGP [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lull.org/adam/
