Re: AOL Terms -- Revealed

[John R Levine]

> At that point, I lose all sympathy with them. Bounce the message,
> fine. 550, no problem. Their network, their anti-spam policy. But
> silent dropping is just _wrong_.

In this case, I don't blame them a bit.  Most of the stuff their anti-spam
rules rejects is indeed spam, and if they did rejections, they'd often
proxy mailbomb whatever return address was forged in the spam.  (Keep in
mind that lots of spam comes through open third-party relays, not direct
from the spammer.)

I do agree that their terms are silly, though.

Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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