Honestly, can you blame AOL for doing this? I can't even count how much SPAM gets thrown at our system from people using their cable or DSL lines. The number of messages you stop vs. the number of legitimate email messages makes the concept seem worth it to me. I'm glad I don't have AOL or Hotmails systems. They could probably cut their systems in half if it weren't for the junk mail that they're having to process. Let's face it ... spam is an epidimic and there's no such thing as a "good" or "perfect" solution.
Spam may not realistically cost end users that much money, but it definatly costs ISPs money in bandwidth and storage for all that junk. If you're small it doesn't amount to much, but if you're the size of AOL and having to store an extra 10 million+ messages a day plus the bandwidth for receiving them and then the bandwidth of sending it to your users when they check their email... the costs add up quick. -Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Frolick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:02 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: how can I send to AOL users > > One of the people invloved in the discussion on the other list works for > AOL, and he confirmed it is purely a regex against the PTR record > looking for keywords that indicate dial/dsl/cable users. E.g. if it > contains cm, dsl, pool, dial, etc. anywhere from the third level up > (127.0.0.1.dsl-city.domain.tld, but not blah.mydsl.tld) they will deny > it. > > Thanks, > Chuck Frolick > ArgoNet, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of William > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [xmail] Re: how can I send to AOL users > > > > > Odds are that AOL has subscribed to a DNSBL that lists dynamic IP > addresses, and your IP address is showing up in there. This means that > *nothing* you can do on your end will fix this - your only hope is > getting > your ISP to assign you an address which is not listed in whichever DNSBL > that AOL is using. > > There is at least one dialup.abuse.net (I believe) RBL subscription and > they > must be using it or another. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
