Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: > It is indeed happening, and appears to have started last night. Dang, I really need to train myself to read _all_ of my email before replying to _any_ of it. -Bill

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Steve Atkins wrote: > That seems pretty unlikely (as it would break every email mentioning a > virtual hosted website), and the URL you link to says nothing of > the sort (it says "Don't use dotted-quads in URLs unless you want to > look like Atriks, doofu

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread trainier
So, to clarify: The official policy has nothing to do with reverse DNS lookups of URLs. AOL's policy prohibits linking of URLs using IP addresses. The system they used to enforce the policy was/is quirky, as can bee seen here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/02/2006 02:23:56 PM: > > On 10/2/06

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Mike Lyon wrote: OK, I should clarify this. The description that is on that link I put in my original e-mail doesn't actually describe what is happening, but that is the error they spit back at me. What really is happening is that the url that is in my e-mail and

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:35:55 PDT, Mike Lyon said: > > Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail > to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse > lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's > postma

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 10/2/06, Matt Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I'm noticing this too. Very lame indeed. Doing a quick Google > on it in the Groups it seems that it was a feature that was enabled > earlier this year. My guess is they turned it off, then turned it Drew the attention of a friend a

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Jeff Shultz
ar. My guess is they turned it off, then turned it back on. Anyone from AOL care to explain this behavior and what should be communicated to the end-user? Thanks. -matt On 10/2/06, Mike Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send a

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
HTTP/1.1 On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Mike Lyon wrote: Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and gives you

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Lyon
e from AOL care to explain this behavior and what should be communicated to the end-user? Thanks. -matt On 10/2/06, Mike Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail > to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Mike Lyon wrote: Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and give

AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Lyon
Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.