OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Ken A
Anyone else seen this one? http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. Ken A. Pacific.Net

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:36 -0700, Ken A wrote: Anyone else seen this one? http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. As reported on the SPAM-L mailing list, this was an error on AOL's part. According to AOL, they've removed the rule

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Ken A
Adam Lanier wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:36 -0700, Ken A wrote: Anyone else seen this one? http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. As reported on the SPAM-L mailing list, this was an error on AOL's part. According to AOL,

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:52 -0700, Ken A wrote: The web page says that it's a policy, not an error. Perhaps the rule misfired and they backed it out, but it looks like they have every intention of blocking URLs in email that consist of IPs rather than hostnames. Perhaps we're speaking

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Ken A wrote: The web page says that it's a policy, not an error. Perhaps the rule misfired and they backed it out, but it looks like they have every intention of blocking URLs in email that consist of IPs rather than hostnames. They most certainly do and have