On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > You just noticed this now? > > AOL has, since the past several months (over a year I think) set up > their dynamic IP pool *.ipt.aol.com to hijack port 25 outbound requests > and reroute it through a set of their own mailservers, that do some > elementary rate limiting and filtering.
True, but it appears AOL has cranked something up in the last couple of weeks or something is choking more often. If you look at various places where users like to gripe, you'll notice an uptick of queries and complaints on the subject. I can't explain what changed, and haven't seen any explanation from AOL about what changed.