Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Marcel Veldhuizen
At 01:43 19-5-2005, Ryan Sorensen wrote: My biggest concern though is messages that come in from spammers, get filtered by spam assassin (they have ***SPAM*** tags in the subject) and then go on to the AOL forwards. These are defanged messages that still get reported as spam. I have to believe t

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread jdow
From: "Ryan Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mike Jackson wrote: > > > >> A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop > >> part is a misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) > >> so I could monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking > >> th

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Kelson
jdow wrote: Er, turn off your open relay as a starter. What you described is typical open relay performance. And of course it taints you. The spammers are simply relaying off your system. Until you stop the spam relays you have no leg to stand on. ...Or maybe he has particular users whose accounts

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Jackson
Er, turn off your open relay as a starter. What you described is typical open relay performance. And of course it taints you. The spammers are simply relaying off your system. Until you stop the spam relays you have no leg to stand on. I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Ryan Sorensen
jdow wrote: > Er, turn off your open relay as a starter. What you described is typical open relay performance. And of course it taints you. The spammers are simply relaying off your system. Until you stop the spam relays you have no leg to stand on. It's hardly fair to accuse him of being an open

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Ryan Sorensen
Mike Jackson wrote: A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop part is a misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) so I could monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking through the messages AOL says their members reported as spam, I notic

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread jdow
From: "Mike Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop part is a > misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) so I could > monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking through the > messages AOL says their members

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Bookworm
Mike Jackson wrote: A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop part is a misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) so I could monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking through the messages AOL says their members reported as spam, I notic

RE: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Miles Mawyer
amassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports? Mike Jackson wrote: > * Invoking a policy of not forwarding to AOL accounts, but we're a web > design/hosting firm with about 200 domains, and a handful of customers have > AOL addresses, and that sort of policy

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Doc Schneider
Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:16:15AM -0700, Mike Jackson wrote: A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop part is a misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) so I could monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking through

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > As I understand it, once you have your server listed on the AOL > feedback loop, it is whitelisted, so that may solve the immediate > problem. Not really. I can tell you the magic number is 10. As in, if someone goes on vacation, gets back, and repor

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Mike Jackson wrote: > * Invoking a policy of not forwarding to AOL accounts, but we're a web > design/hosting firm with about 200 domains, and a handful of customers have > AOL addresses, and that sort of policy wouldn't stand. Variation of this -- inform then they can not us

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Atkinson
Mike Jackson wrote: * Invoking a policy of not forwarding to AOL accounts, but we're a web design/hosting firm with about 200 domains, and a handful of customers have AOL addresses, and that sort of policy wouldn't stand. This doesn't directly address your question, but we have found that the AOL

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:16:15AM -0700, Mike Jackson wrote: > A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop part is > a misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) so I could > monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking through the > messages