AOL tarpitting?
had AOL tarpitting gotten quite a bit more aggressive in the last few days? It happened to us and we signed up for their "feedback loop" and rerouted our mail to them via another route. The new route was tarpitted within 24 hours and absolutely nothing was communicated to us about it via the "feedback loop". Does that thing actually work? Any contacts, on or off list who could advise? -mark -- Mark Jeftovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Co-founder, easyDNS Technologies Inc. ph. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 fx. +1-(416)-535-0237
Re: AOL tarpitting?
At 2:26 PM -0500 11/5/04, Mark Jeftovic wrote: had AOL tarpitting gotten quite a bit more aggressive in the last few days? One of the sites I run (hosted on cihost) recently started getting bad SMTP responses from AOL. We worked around by routing AOL and Compuserver mail through a gateway that cihost claims is "clean", but we haven't been able to get a clear story on why our IPs were being blocked, or how to unblock them. I had heard elsewhere that AOL is cracking down on ISPs they feel aren't keeping clean, but I don't know if that's related.
RE: AOL tarpitting?
AOLs feedback loop seams to take a month or so to take effect. -James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jeftovic Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AOL tarpitting? had AOL tarpitting gotten quite a bit more aggressive in the last few days? It happened to us and we signed up for their "feedback loop" and rerouted our mail to them via another route. The new route was tarpitted within 24 hours and absolutely nothing was communicated to us about it via the "feedback loop". Does that thing actually work? Any contacts, on or off list who could advise? -mark -- Mark Jeftovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Co-founder, easyDNS Technologies Inc. ph. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 fx. +1-(416)-535-0237
Re: AOL tarpitting?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jeftovic Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AOL tarpitting? The new route was tarpitted within 24 hours and absolutely nothing was communicated to us about it via the "feedback loop". Does that thing actually work? Any contacts, on or off list who could advise? -mark The feedback loop seems to work quite well though we see a lot of what I consider to be bogus spam reports (not mass mail - just the usual idiots forwarding jokes, mail from their own employers, etc.).. I suspect some AOL users think the 'report as spam' button is the delete key - it was pointed out that they are next to each other on the menu. The reports have helped us to find a few low volume exploits of scripts (<100 messages /day) on the web servers that we probably would not have found otherwise. Mark Radabaugh Amplex
Re: [nanog] RE: AOL tarpitting?
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, James Ashton wrote: My own experiences with them went something like: Attempt to sign up for several address ranges. Realize the form doesn't understand complex ranges like 192.168.1-4.0-255, 192.168.1.0/20, so list the first block and include a note (because, you know, they give you a notes field). Discover you're only getting SCOMP notices for that one class C. Fill out a form with all your address space. Wait like two weeks to get a reply. See if they've actually done it. This system IS something useful, as AOL seems to have people who target it and nothing else, and the range of AOL users (with as much respect as is deserved an AOL user) likely to be able to figure out the useful reporting address for an email, or to use something like SpamCop is damned near nil. -Dan AOLs feedback loop seams to take a month or so to take effect. -James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jeftovic Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AOL tarpitting? had AOL tarpitting gotten quite a bit more aggressive in the last few days? It happened to us and we signed up for their "feedback loop" and rerouted our mail to them via another route. The new route was tarpitted within 24 hours and absolutely nothing was communicated to us about it via the "feedback loop". Does that thing actually work? Any contacts, on or off list who could advise? -mark -- Mark Jeftovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Co-founder, easyDNS Technologies Inc. ph. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 fx. +1-(416)-535-0237 -- "Of course she's gonna be upset! You're dealing with a woman here Dan, what the hell's wrong with you?" -S. Kennedy, 11/11/01 Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---
