On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2001 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
> alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
> >> There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to
> >> prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specifically, this
> >> appears to be one of the filter points that AOL uses (and of
> >> course it then drops the caught mail silently without a bounce of
> >> warning).
>
> > Do you have any details on AOL's spam filters? None of my AOL
> > readers have complained about missing email. It looks like my
> > largest list has 60 digested and 55 regular AOL members, so I'm
> > guessing that their spam filter is set to a higher threshold than
> > that.
>
> They appear to be using a multi-valued metric for their spam
> detection -- and to change their metrics regularly. See:
>
> http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html#lists
It doesn't sound like it makes a huge difference if they are batched
up at once, or if they come very quickly on different messages.
"If a mailing list server sends too much mail in too short a time to a
number of AOL members, AOL will consider it questionable and delete
it."
alex
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