Re: SMTP in distributed DOS

[Brian Johnson]

I have in the past recieved a bounce message from aol (actually from one of
their servers) when I tried to e-mail a non-exsistant user.  It's likely, with
aol's huge userbase, that a mistyped name would match someone elses username
though, and then that person would probably ignore the message, and then it'd
seen that aol dropped the message when it should've bounced it when it really
was delivered, just to the wrong person...  just a thought..
  -Brian

Robert Sander wrote:

> This is obviously a bounce generated by qmail running on challah.msrl.com
> which I believe does not belong to AOL, or does it?
>
> I have also teh feeling that AOL silently drops error messages...